CANST is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. CANST is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CANST?
| 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: 26 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CANST is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CANST
No single letter turns CANST into another word.
How CANST scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in CANST, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 29,046.
What stands out about CANST
- 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 CANST mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaic
To be able to; the old second person singular form of can, used together with thou.
A speaker who asked canst thou help me was asking one particular listener whether that person had the power or skill to do something. Canst belongs to a small set of old verb forms, together with wilt and shalt, that once matched the pronoun thou. Modern English dropped these matching forms once thou disappeared from everyday speech, leaving only the plain word can.
How CANST is used
Archaic; encountered today mainly in older religious texts, hymns, and writing that imitates earlier English.
- Canst thou lift this heavy stone, the old man asked.
- The hymn asks canst thou see the light of dawn.
- He wrote canst where a modern writer would put can.
- Thou canst not change what has already happened.
- The play used canst to give the dialogue an old-fashioned sound.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CANST and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of CANST
The 5 tiles of CANST in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with CANST
2 longer words begin with CANST.
Shorter words from the letters in CANST
Common questions about CANST
- Is CANST valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CANST, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CANST worth?
- CANST is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CANST mean?
- To be able to; the old second person singular form of can, used together with thou.
- What letters can be added to CANST?
- No single letter can be added to CANST to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of CANST:
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