4 letter words ending in V

Our dictionary holds 13 4 letter words ending in v, all exactly 4 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is CHAV, worth 12 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with C than any other letter — 2 of them, about 15% of the list.

1 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (8%), including kiev; the remaining 12 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.