Hidden inside cantilever sit cantilever and trivalence, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 630 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cantilever and trivalence tie for the highest Scrabble score from cantilever at 15 points. The top 10 of 630 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in cantilever: one comes from rearranging its letters, and cantilever itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cantilever and trivalence, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling cantilever turns up 5 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is ventricle, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cantilever. If a familiar word is all you need, start with creative, relative, and relevant. For points, the strongest plays are cervelat, creative, enactive, navicert, reactive, vernacle, vernicle, and vertical — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in cantilever produces 56 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with article, central, certain, cleaner, eternal, recital, and veteran. For points, the strongest plays are caviler, cervine, clavier, cleaver, enclave, valence, valeric, and venatic — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling cantilever turns up 130 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with active, center, cereal, clever, client, create, and entire. For points, the strongest plays are active, carvel, carven, cavern, claver, cleave, clever, craven, and evince — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 165 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cantilever. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alien, alive, alter, carve, cater, and clean. For points, the strongest plays are calve, carve, caver, cavie, cavil, civet, clave, clavi, crave, evict, varec, vatic, vicar, and vinca — 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 cantilever produces 148 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tail, tale, tear, teen, tire, tree, and veal. For points, the strongest plays are vice and cave — 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 cantilever turns up 82 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air, ant, are, art, ate, and can. For points, the strongest play is vac — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cantilever. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, al, an, ar, at, el, en, er, et, in, it, la, li, na, ne, re, ta, te, and ti — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in cantilever plus one additional letter.
cantilever 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for cantilever. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
cantilever is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cantilever unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cantilever and trivalence, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cantilever 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 cantilever produce 630 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 5 nine-letter words, 22 eight-letter words, 56 seven-letter words, 130 six-letter words, 165 five-letter words, 148 four-letter words, 82 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.