CADRE is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. CADRE 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 CADRE?
| 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 CADRE 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 CADRE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
cadresChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CADRE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in CADRE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 14,523.
What stands out about CADRE
- The same 5 tiles also spell 5 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 CADRE mean in Scrabble?
noun
A small group of trained, dedicated people who form the core of a larger organization.
A cadre is defined by its function rather than its size: it is the part of an organization built so that it can expand, so a handful of trained officers can form a cadre around which an entire regiment is later raised. The word arrived from French cadre, a frame, and something of that meaning survives — a cadre is the framework the rest of the structure gets built onto. In political writing a cadre often names a single trained activist rather than the group, a narrower use of the same word.
How CADRE is used
Countable, used both of the group — the founding cadre — and, especially in political writing, of one member of it.
- A small cadre of engineers designed the whole system.
- The regiment kept a cadre of veterans to train new recruits.
- He rose through the party as a trusted cadre.
- Only a cadre of the original staff remained after the merger.
- The training cadre arrived a full month before the recruits.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CADRE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of CADRE
The 5 tiles of CADRE in a different order — 5 found.
Words starting with CADRE
1 longer words begin with CADRE.
Shorter words from the letters in CADRE
Common questions about CADRE
- Is CADRE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CADRE, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CADRE worth?
- CADRE is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CADRE mean?
- A small group of trained, dedicated people who form the core of a larger organization.
- What letters can be added to CADRE?
- CADRE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of CADRE:
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