Hidden inside cantuses sit cantuses and nutcases, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 223 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cantuses and nutcases tie for the highest Scrabble score from cantuses at 10 points. The top 10 of 223 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in cantuses: one comes from rearranging its letters, and cantuses itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cantuses and nutcases, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in cantuses produces 9 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ascents, caestus, cuestas, nutcase, secants, stances, uncases, and usances, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling cantuses turns up 30 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anuses, causes, sanest, sauces, scents, and sunset. For points, the strongest plays are acutes, ascent, cantus, castes, causes, census, centas, cestas, cestus, cuesta, enacts, sauces, scants, scenas, scents, scutes, secant, stance, uncase, uncast, and usance — 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 52 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cantuses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunts, cases, casts, cause, cents, nests, and sauce. For points, the strongest plays are acnes, acute, ascus, canes, canst, cants, cases, caste, casts, casus, cates, cause, cents, centu, cesta, cutes, enact, sauce, scans, scant, scats, scena, scent, scuta, scute, scuts, sects, and taces — 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 cantuses produces 67 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ants, anus, aunt, cans, case, and cast. For points, the strongest plays are aces, acne, acts, cane, cans, cant, case, cast, cate, cats, cent, cess, cues, cuss, cute, cuts, ecus, sacs, scan, scat, scut, secs, sect, tace, and tecs — 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 cantuses turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant, ass, ate, can, cat, and cue. For points, the strongest plays are ace, act, can, cat, cue, cut, ecu, sac, sec, and tec — 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cantuses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ae, an, as, at, en, es, et, na, ne, nu, ta, te, 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 cantuses and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
cantuses is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
cantuses is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cantuses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cantuses and nutcases, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cantuses 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 cantuses produce 223 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 30 six-letter words, 52 five-letter words, 67 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.