Hidden inside cantus sit cantus and uncast, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 57 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cantus and uncast tie for the highest Scrabble score from cantus at 8 points. The top 10 of 57 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in cantus: one comes from rearranging its letters, and cantus itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cantus and uncast, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cantus. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunts and tunas. For points, the strongest plays are canst, cants, scant, and scuta — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in cantus produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ants, anus, aunt, cans, cast, and cats. For points, the strongest plays are acts, cans, cant, cast, cats, cuts, scan, scat, and scut — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling cantus turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant, can, cat, cut, nut, and sat. For points, the strongest plays are act, can, cat, cut, and sac — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cantus. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, and us. For points, the strongest plays are an, as, at, na, nu, ta, un, us, and ut — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in cantus 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.
cantus is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
cantus is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cantus unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cantus and uncast, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cantus 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 cantus produce 57 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.