CANEBRAKE is a valid Scrabble word — 17 points
Yes. CANEBRAKE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 17 points in Scrabble and 20 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CANEBRAKE?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CANEBRAKE is to know. It scores 17 from 9 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CANEBRAKE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
canebrakesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CANEBRAKE scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in CANEBRAKE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so CANEBRAKE has to be built on the board across turns.
What does CANEBRAKE mean in Scrabble?
noun
North American
A dense thicket of cane, especially giant cane, growing in damp ground.
A canebrake once covered large stretches of the American South, along rivers and in bottomland. Settlers cut through a canebrake to reach good farmland, and animals used it as cover. The word also names a rattlesnake of that habitat.
How CANEBRAKE is used
Used mainly in the southern United States for a thick stand of cane.
- The hunters pushed through a tall canebrake near the river.
- A canebrake grew thick along the bayou.
- Deer hid in the canebrake during the heat of the day.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CANEBRAKE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CANEBRAKE
1 longer words begin with CANEBRAKE.
Shorter words from the letters in CANEBRAKE
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Common questions about CANEBRAKE
- Is CANEBRAKE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CANEBRAKE, where it scores 20 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CANEBRAKE worth?
- CANEBRAKE is worth 17 points in Scrabble and 20 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CANEBRAKE mean?
- A dense thicket of cane, especially giant cane, growing in damp ground.
- What letters can be added to CANEBRAKE?
- CANEBRAKE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of CANEBRAKE:
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