5 letter words with V as the 2nd letter

Our dictionary holds 52 5 letter words with v as the 2nd letter, all exactly 5 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is AVYZE, worth 20 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with A than any other letter — 18 of them, about 35% of the list.

9 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (17%), including every, event, avoid, ivory, evite; the remaining 43 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.