CANKER is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. CANKER is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CANKER?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CANKER is to know. It scores 12 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CANKER
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CANKER scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in CANKER, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 153,299.
What does CANKER mean in Scrabble?
noun
An ulcerous sore or spreading disease of tissue, especially in the mouth or in the bark of a tree; also, any slow, corrupting influence.
In medicine a canker is a painful open sore, as in the small ulcers that appear inside the mouth. Gardeners use the word for a fungal or bacterial disease that eats into the bark of apple and other trees, leaving sunken, dead patches. From these senses the word grew into a figure of speech for anything that silently eats away at a person or a community, such as envy or distrust.
How CANKER is used
Literal in medicine and gardening; figurative use is literary.
- A canker had spread across the trunk of the old apple tree.
- He felt a small canker on the inside of his lip.
- Jealousy was a canker in the family for years.
- The orchard owner cut away every branch showing canker.
- Distrust is a canker that grows when no one speaks of it.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CANKER and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of CANKER
The 6 tiles of CANKER in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with CANKER
12 longer words begin with CANKER.
Shorter words from the letters in CANKER
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Common questions about CANKER
- Is CANKER valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CANKER, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CANKER worth?
- CANKER is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CANKER mean?
- An ulcerous sore or spreading disease of tissue, especially in the mouth or in the bark of a tree; also, any slow, corrupting influence.
- What letters can be added to CANKER?
- CANKER takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of CANKER:
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