Definitions for vie

vie vie

Spelling: [vahy]
IPA: /vaɪ/

Vie is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 11 anagrams from letters in vie (eiv).

Definitions for vie

verb (used with object)

  1. Archaic. to put forward in competition or rivalry.
  2. Obsolete. to stake in card playing.

verb (used without object)

  1. to strive in competition or rivalry with another; contend for superiority:

Origin of vie

1525-35; by aphesis Middle French envier to raise the stake (at cards), Old French: to challenge, provoke Latin invītāre to entertain, invite

Examples for vie

No other mountain region in the world can vie with it in awe-inspiring beauty.

The fish seemed to vie with one another in falling upon the bait.

Christie will vie with Romney for primary and caucus votes chiefly in the North and to some extent in the Midwest.

People seemed to vie with each other in giving away their property.

He and his colleagues had no salon which could vie with those of the Whig grandees.

Teach us that to vie is not to rival, and to imitate not to invent.

They began to writhe about his limbs, but drew no sound to vie with their crackling.

Some vie to set slips and twine them, which sometimes, but seldome thriue all.

Lady Vargrave seemed to vie with Evelyn which should love him the most.

The tories appeared to vie with and even to surpass the savages in barbarity.

Word Value for vie
Scrable

6

Words with friends

7

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