VANT is valid in Collins, not in North America — 7 points
It depends on the list you play by. VANT is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 7 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept VANT?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful VANT is to know. It scores 7 from 4 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for VANT
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How VANT scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in VANT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| v | 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 VANT mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaicliterary
The vanguard, or foremost part of an army, an archaic word used by Shakespeare.
Elizabethan writers used vant as a shorter form of vanguard, naming the troops who marched or fought at the front of a force. The word disappeared from ordinary English long ago and survives only in early modern texts and reference lists of archaic terms.
How VANT is used
Found only in early modern English texts.
- The captain rode with the vant as the army advanced.
- Shakespeare writes of soldiers holding the vant against the charge.
- The chronicle described fierce fighting in the vant.
- He was assigned to the vant for the coming battle.
- The old play used vant where a modern script would say vanguard.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of VANT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with VANT
10 longer words begin with VANT.
Words ending in VANT
Showing 24 of 25 words that end in VANT. Useful as a back hook: play VANT onto a word already on the board.
Words with VANT inside
Showing 24 of 66 words that contain VANT somewhere in the middle. Words that start with VANT are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in VANT
Common questions about VANT
- Is VANT valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and VANT is not in it.
- How many points is VANT worth?
- VANT is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does VANT mean?
- The vanguard, or foremost part of an army, an archaic word used by Shakespeare.
- What letters can be added to VANT?
- VANT takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of VANT:
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