CANE is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. CANE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CANE?
| 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: 44 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CANE is to know. It scores 6 from 4 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 7.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CANE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CANE scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in CANE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 3,026.
What stands out about CANE
- The same 4 tiles also spell 2 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 CANE mean in Scrabble?
noun
A cane is the long, jointed stem of a plant such as bamboo or sugar cane, or a stick used for support or as an instrument of punishment.
Cane first names the hollow, woody stalk of plants like bamboo, sugar cane and rattan, which grow in long straight sections divided by joints. From that plant material people make walking sticks, furniture and baskets, and the word cane extended to mean any slender rod used the same way, including a stick once used to punish schoolchildren. The material sense and the object sense of cane are still both common today.
How CANE is used
Neutral, everyday word; the punishment sense is now mostly historical in most English-speaking countries.
- The old man walked slowly, leaning on his wooden cane.
- Sugar cane grows tall and thick in the fields near the coast.
- The chair was woven from strips of cane rather than plastic.
- In some schools long ago, a teacher could strike a pupil with a cane.
- They cut the cane by hand before the harvest machines arrived.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CANE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of CANE
The 4 tiles of CANE in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with CANE
Showing 24 of 28 words that begin with CANE.
Words ending in CANE
10 words end in CANE. Useful as a back hook: play CANE onto a word already on the board.
Words with CANE inside
Showing 24 of 35 words that contain CANE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with CANE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in CANE
Common questions about CANE
- Is CANE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CANE, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CANE worth?
- CANE is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CANE mean?
- A cane is the long, jointed stem of a plant such as bamboo or sugar cane, or a stick used for support or as an instrument of punishment.
- What letters can be added to CANE?
- CANE takes 4 hooks: 0 in front and 4 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of CANE:
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