5 letter words with U and V

Our dictionary holds 60 5 letter words with u and v, all exactly 5 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is JUVES, worth 15 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with V than any other letter — 33 of them, about 55% of the list.

8 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (13%), including value, virus, venue, curve, vault; the remaining 52 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.