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Is cave a Scrabble word?

Yes, cave is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 9 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of cave?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (caving) A naturally-occurring cavity in bedrock which is large enough to be entered by an adult.Examples: "It was not strictly a cave, but a narrow fissure in the rock."

2. (nuclear physics) A shielded area where nuclear experiments can be carried out.Examples: "These potential radiation fields or radioactive material levels may be the result of normal operations (ie, radiation in a target cave) […]"

3. (drilling, uncountable) Debris, particularly broken rock, which falls into a drill hole and interferes with drilling.Examples: "[…] the casing can then be placed in the hole without encountering any cave and core drilling in rock can begin."uncountable

4. (mining) A collapse or cave-in.Examples: "The "breasts" of marble which unite the opposite lateral walls have been left standing in order to prevent a possible cave of the wall on either side."

5. (figuratively, also slang) The vagina.Examples: "Then without a word she lay on her back in the bed, her dark blond pubic hair rising about her dark wet cave like dried brush about a hidden spring."alsofigurativelyslang

6. (slang, politics, often "Cave") A group that breaks from a larger political party or faction on a particular issue.Examples: "Without joining the cave, Hyde had abstained both in December 1956 and May 1957."slang

verb (English)

1. (figurative) To surrender.Examples: "He caved under pressure."; "Eventually the NUR overplayed its hands with an all-out strike. And when Peter Parker, the then-chairman of BR, who was well regarded among his staff, called their bluff by threatening to close down the entire network, they caved in."; "On Friday morning, Salvador Illa, the former health minister of Spain who now leads the Catalan branch of the PSOE, said the socialists would be happy to fight another general election rather than cave to Junts and the ERC’s demands."figuratively

2. (mining) In room-and-pillar mining, to extract a deposit of rock by breaking down a pillar which had been holding it in place.Examples: "The deposit is caved by knocking out the posts."

3. (mining, obsolete) To work over tailings to dress small pieces of marketable ore.Examples: "As an indication of the miners' desperation in these years, the free miners of Wensley lowered themselves to caving for scraps of ore."obsolete

4. (obsolete) To dwell in a cave.Examples: "although perhaps / It may be heard at court that such as we / Cave here, hunt here, are outlaws, and in time / May make some stronger head"obsolete

intj (English)

1. (British, school slang) look out!; beware!Examples: "Ssh! Cave! Mum's the word! Not 'arf, or what?"Synonyms: heads up, look out, watch itBritish

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "cave"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "cave"?

Scrabble
9 points
C3
A1
V4
E1
Words With Friends
11 points
C4
A1
V4
E1

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