CLADE is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. CLADE 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 CLADE?
| 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: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CLADE is to know. It scores 8 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CLADE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
cladesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CLADE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in CLADE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 21,785.
What stands out about CLADE
- The same 5 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 CLADE mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A group of organisms, including a common ancestor and all of its descendants, treated as a single branch on the tree of life.
Biologists use the term clade to describe a monophyletic group, meaning it contains an ancestral species together with every species that descended from it, and nothing else. The concept lets scientists organize living things by shared ancestry rather than by outward appearance alone. A clade can be small, such as a single genus, or enormous, such as all vertebrates.
How CLADE is used
Technical noun from evolutionary biology; usually appears in phrases like a monophyletic clade or the clade of birds and dinosaurs.
- Researchers placed the fossil within a newly defined clade.
- Birds form a clade nested inside the larger clade of dinosaurs.
- The study revised how several clades of beetles are related.
- A single mutation can help identify members of the same clade.
- Scientists debated whether the two species belonged to one clade.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CLADE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of CLADE
The 5 tiles of CLADE in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with CLADE
1 longer words begin with CLADE.
Words ending in CLADE
1 words end in CLADE. Useful as a back hook: play CLADE onto a word already on the board.
Words with CLADE inside
1 words contain CLADE in the middle. Words that start with CLADE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in CLADE
Common questions about CLADE
- Is CLADE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CLADE, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CLADE worth?
- CLADE is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CLADE mean?
- A group of organisms, including a common ancestor and all of its descendants, treated as a single branch on the tree of life.
- What letters can be added to CLADE?
- CLADE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of CLADE:
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