CAPE is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. CAPE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CAPE?
| 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: 49 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CAPE is to know. It scores 8 from 4 tiles, takes 5 hooks, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CAPE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CAPE scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in CAPE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 9,077.
What does CAPE mean in Scrabble?
noun
A sleeveless garment fastened at the neck.
Cape the garment and cape the headland are two separate borrowings that happen to have arrived at the same spelling. One comes from a Latin word for a hooded cloak and the other from a Latin word for a head.
How CAPE is used
Countable: a cape, two capes.
- A cape keeps the rain off and the arms free.
- The word cape covers two separate borrowings.
- The ship rounded the cape before dawn.
- Two capes of the same cloth and different length.
- One cape comes from a cloak and the other from a head.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CAPE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of CAPE
The 4 tiles of CAPE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with CAPE
Showing 24 of 41 words that begin with CAPE.
Words ending in CAPE
Showing 24 of 33 words that end in CAPE. Useful as a back hook: play CAPE onto a word already on the board.
Words with CAPE inside
Showing 24 of 71 words that contain CAPE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with CAPE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in CAPE
Common questions about CAPE
- Is CAPE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CAPE, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CAPE worth?
- CAPE is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CAPE mean?
- A sleeveless garment fastened at the neck.
- What letters can be added to CAPE?
- CAPE takes 5 hooks: 1 in front and 4 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of CAPE:
Open CAPE in the Word Finder