CADE is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. CADE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CADE?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 42 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CADE is to know. It scores 7 from 4 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 6.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CADE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CADE scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in CADE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 4,538.
What stands out about CADE
- The same 4 tiles also spell 3 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does CADE mean in Scrabble?
noun
dialect
A lamb that has been reared by hand, typically after being rejected or orphaned by its mother.
A cade is fed and cared for by a farmer rather than by its own mother, often using a bottle in its early weeks. Because a cade grows up close to people, it is usually far tamer and friendlier than lambs raised normally within the flock.
How CADE is used
Traditional farming term, chiefly used in rural British dialect speech.
- The farmer bottle-fed the cade every morning.
- A cade often follows its keeper around the yard.
- They raised the cade lamb inside the farmhouse kitchen.
- The orphaned cades grew tame from constant handling.
- Her favorite cade would nudge her hand for food.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CADE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of CADE
The 4 tiles of CADE in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with CADE
21 longer words begin with CADE.
Words ending in CADE
18 words end in CADE. Useful as a back hook: play CADE onto a word already on the board.
Words with CADE inside
Showing 24 of 80 words that contain CADE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with CADE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in CADE
Common questions about CADE
- Is CADE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CADE, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CADE worth?
- CADE is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CADE mean?
- A lamb that has been reared by hand, typically after being rejected or orphaned by its mother.
- What letters can be added to CADE?
- CADE takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of CADE:
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