CAKE is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. CAKE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CAKE?
| 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: 46 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CAKE is to know. It scores 10 from 4 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CAKE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CAKE scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in CAKE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 18,154.
What does CAKE mean in Scrabble?
noun
A sweet baked food made from flour and sugar.
Cake came from Old Norse and originally meant a small flat loaf, not anything sweet. The saying about letting people eat cake is a translation of a French word naming a different food entirely.
How CAKE is used
Countable and uncountable. Also a verb.
- A cake that size feeds twenty and impresses nobody.
- The word cake once meant a small flat loaf.
- Mud caked the whole underside of the car.
- The famous saying about cake mistranslates a French word.
- Two cakes and one of them entirely for show.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CAKE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CAKE
15 longer words begin with CAKE.
Words ending in CAKE
Showing 24 of 30 words that end in CAKE. Useful as a back hook: play CAKE onto a word already on the board.
Words with CAKE inside
Showing 24 of 32 words that contain CAKE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with CAKE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in CAKE
Common questions about CAKE
- Is CAKE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CAKE, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CAKE worth?
- CAKE is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CAKE mean?
- A sweet baked food made from flour and sugar.
- What letters can be added to CAKE?
- CAKE takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of CAKE:
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