Hidden inside cantav is one standout: vacant, a six-letter play worth 11 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 24 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble ATNAVC, NACTVA or TAVANC and you get the same 6 letters as CANTAV: so the words from CANTAV listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
CANTAV isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to VACANT (adjective), empty, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
vacant is the highest-scoring word from cantav, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 24 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling cantav produces exactly one six-letter word: vacant. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in cantav and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is vacant, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from cantav earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in cantav produce 24 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 2 five-letter words, 4 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.