Hidden inside cante is one standout: enact, a five-letter play worth 7 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 35 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble CAENT, ANTCE or CNAET and you get the same 5 letters as CANTE: so the words from CANTE listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
CANTE isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to ENACT (verb), to make into a law, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
enact is the highest-scoring word from cante, worth 7 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 35 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling cante produces exactly one five-letter word: enact. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cante produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent and neat. For points, the strongest plays are acne, cane, cant, cate, cent, and tace — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cante turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant, ate, can, cat, eat, and net. For points, the strongest plays are ace, act, can, cat, and tec — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cante. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an and at. For points, the strongest plays are ae, an, at, en, et, na, ne, ta, and te — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
26 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in cante plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in cante and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is enact, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and no other word from cante 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 cante produce 35 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 9 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.