CANTO is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. CANTO 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 CANTO?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CANTO is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CANTO
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CANTO scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in CANTO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 14,523.
What stands out about CANTO
- The same 5 tiles also spell 3 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 CANTO mean in Scrabble?
noun
literary
One of the main divisions of a long poem, especially an epic.
A canto works much like a chapter in a novel, breaking a long poem into separate, readable sections. Dante divided the Divine Comedy into a hundred cantos, and later poets such as Byron and Spenser borrowed the same structure for their own long works. The word came into English from Italian, where it originally meant a song or a part sung aloud.
How CANTO is used
Used mainly when discussing long narrative or epic poetry rather than short verse.
- The final canto of the poem brings all the characters together.
- She read one canto each evening before bed.
- Byron structured his poem into a series of numbered cantos.
- The opening canto introduces the hero and his quest.
- Scholars still debate the meaning of the last canto.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CANTO and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of CANTO
The 5 tiles of CANTO in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with CANTO
24 longer words begin with CANTO.
Words with CANTO inside
4 words contain CANTO in the middle. Words that start with CANTO are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in CANTO
Common questions about CANTO
- Is CANTO valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CANTO, where it scores 9 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CANTO worth?
- CANTO is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CANTO mean?
- One of the main divisions of a long poem, especially an epic.
- What letters can be added to CANTO?
- CANTO takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of CANTO:
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