cable C₃A₁B₃L₁E₁

Cable is a familiar word for a long object that joins things physically. It is accepted as both a Wordle answer and an allowed guess, and its letter mix gives it a 9-point base Scrabble score. One wrinkle: rearranging CABLE does not make another recorded anagram.

CABLE at a glance

• CABLE has five letters and is both a Wordle answer and an allowed guess.
• Its Scrabble total is 9: C and B are worth 3 points each; A, L and E are worth 1 each.
• Reordering its letters produces no other recorded anagram.
• Nine one-letter neighbours include TABLE, FABLE, GABLE and SABLE.

What does CABLE mean?

A cable is a long object used to make a physical connection. The definition focuses on what it does: it links one thing to another, rather than naming a particular material or device.

That makes CABLE easy to distinguish from its close spelling neighbours. TABLE and FABLE each differ by one letter, but neither carries the connection meaning. In a word puzzle, keep the familiar sense of CABLE in mind instead of treating every near-match as interchangeable.

CABLE meaning, score and Wordle play

CABLE scores 9 points before board bonuses. The two 3-point tiles, C and B, account for 6 of those points; the three remaining tiles contribute 1 each. That is a solid base for a common word, though the rack score alone does not make it a high-value play.

CABLE also works in Wordle as both an answer and an allowed guess. Its letters are all different, so a guess tests five distinct letters at once. For a CABLE meaning clue, remember the physical-connection sense; for a letter puzzle, its lack of anagrams means shuffling the same tiles will not produce another word.