CADET is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. CADET is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CADET?
| 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: 34 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CADET is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CADET
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
cadetsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CADET scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in CADET, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 14,523.
What does CADET mean in Scrabble?
noun
A young trainee in the armed forces, police, or a similar organization, still under instruction.
Cadet reached English through French from Gascon capdet, ultimately from Latin caput, meaning head, because the word originally named a younger son of a noble family who would never inherit and often took up a military career instead. That older sense of younger son or brother is largely gone from everyday English now, but it explains why the training sense attached itself so naturally to the same word: cadets have always been junior by definition, whichever institution they belong to.
How CADET is used
Countable: a cadet, several cadets. Common in phrases like police cadet, officer cadet, and cadet corps.
- The cadet stood at attention through the entire inspection.
- She joined the police cadets straight out of school.
- Officer cadets train for three years before commissioning.
- His grandfather had been a cadet in the same academy.
- The youngest cadet in the class finished the course first.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CADET and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of CADET
The 5 tiles of CADET in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with CADET
3 longer words begin with CADET.
Words ending in CADET
1 words end in CADET. Useful as a back hook: play CADET onto a word already on the board.
Words with CADET inside
1 words contain CADET in the middle. Words that start with CADET are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in CADET
Common questions about CADET
- Is CADET valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CADET, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CADET worth?
- CADET is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CADET mean?
- A young trainee in the armed forces, police, or a similar organization, still under instruction.
- What letters can be added to CADET?
- CADET takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of CADET:
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