What CASSAVA Means
- noun: a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics
- noun: cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca
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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
CASSAVA is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as C3 A1 S1 S1 A1 V4 A1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 62 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Anagrams of CASSAVA (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In CASSAVA
21 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
6 letter words (2)
5 letter words (2)
4 letter words (8)
3 letter words (7)
2 letter words (2)
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