CANT is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. CANT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CANT?
| 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: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CANT is to know. It scores 6 from 4 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CANT
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CANT scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in CANT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 6,051.
What does CANT mean in Scrabble?
noun
Insincere talk, especially pious or moralising language used for effect.
Cant began as the private vocabulary of thieves and beggars, then turned outward: by the eighteenth century it covered the speech of anyone whose sincerity you doubted, and it has kept that edge ever since. A separate cant, from a different root, means a slope or a tilt — which is how a rail can be canted without anybody being accused of hypocrisy.
How CANT is used
Uncountable in the main sense. The tilting sense is countable and works as a verb as well.
- The speech was cant from the first line to the last.
- He has no time for cant of any kind.
- What sounds like principle is often cant with better grammar.
- The word cant covers thieves' slang and pulpit humbug alike.
- She cut through the cant with one question.
- The rail is canted slightly so that water runs off it.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CANT and 6 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CANT
Showing 24 of 143 words that begin with CANT.
Words ending in CANT
Showing 24 of 51 words that end in CANT. Useful as a back hook: play CANT onto a word already on the board.
Words with CANT inside
Showing 24 of 166 words that contain CANT somewhere in the middle. Words that start with CANT are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in CANT
Common questions about CANT
- Is CANT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CANT, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CANT worth?
- CANT is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CANT mean?
- Insincere talk, especially pious or moralising language used for effect.
- What letters can be added to CANT?
- CANT takes 4 hooks: 1 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of CANT:
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