CANTALOUP is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. CANTALOUP is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 18 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CANTALOUP?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CANTALOUP is to know. It scores 13 from 9 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CANTALOUP
Front hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CANTALOUP scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in CANTALOUP, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so CANTALOUP has to be built on the board across turns.
What does CANTALOUP mean in Scrabble?
noun
A round melon with netted tan skin and sweet orange flesh.
The cantaloup is a muskmelon, served in slices or cubes at breakfast and in fruit salads. This spelling is the shorter variant of the more usual cantaloupe.
How CANTALOUP is used
The word cantaloup is a spelling found in older and some dictionary entries.
- She sliced a ripe cantaloup for breakfast.
- A cantaloup smells sweet when it is ready to eat.
- The market sold a cantaloup at every stall.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CANTALOUP and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CANTALOUP
3 longer words begin with CANTALOUP.
Shorter words from the letters in CANTALOUP
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Common questions about CANTALOUP
- Is CANTALOUP valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CANTALOUP, where it scores 18 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CANTALOUP worth?
- CANTALOUP is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CANTALOUP mean?
- A round melon with netted tan skin and sweet orange flesh.
- What letters can be added to CANTALOUP?
- CANTALOUP takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of CANTALOUP:
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