CANTUS is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. CANTUS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CANTUS?
| 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: 25 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CANTUS is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CANTUS
No single letter turns CANTUS into another word.
How CANTUS scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in CANTUS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 114,974.
What does CANTUS mean in Scrabble?
noun
musicrare
A melody or chant, especially the fixed melodic line used as the basis of a piece in medieval and Renaissance church music.
Cantus is Latin for song or singing, and it survives in English mainly through the term cantus firmus, a pre-existing melody, often a plainchant, around which composers built additional voices in early polyphonic music. Used alone, cantus can also refer more generally to the highest voice part in a choral texture or simply to a melody in an academic or historical discussion of music. Because the word entered English straight from Latin rather than developing through everyday speech, it stays confined to music scholarship rather than ordinary conversation. Students of early music encounter it constantly when studying how medieval and Renaissance composers layered new music over older chants.
How CANTUS is used
A specialist term in music history and theory, rarely used outside academic or scholarly writing.
- The composer built three new voices above the borrowed cantus.
- Their textbook traced how a single cantus could support an entire mass.
- She analyzed the cantus firmus running through the motet.
- The lecture explained how cantus and counterpoint combine in early music.
- A simple cantus formed the backbone of the fifteenth century setting.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CANTUS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of CANTUS
The 6 tiles of CANTUS in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with CANTUS
1 longer words begin with CANTUS.
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Common questions about CANTUS
- Is CANTUS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CANTUS, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CANTUS worth?
- CANTUS is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CANTUS mean?
- A melody or chant, especially the fixed melodic line used as the basis of a piece in medieval and Renaissance church music.
- What letters can be added to CANTUS?
- No single letter can be added to CANTUS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of CANTUS:
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