54 words come out when you unscramble CANASTA, starting with CANASTA itself: 9 in Scrabble, 11 in Words With Friends. Of the shorter words, SANCTA and TACANS lead with 8 points. 7 letters: 3 vowels and 4 consonants. CANASTA as a single 7-tile play makes 59 in Scrabble, 9 plus the 50 bonus, and 46 in Words With Friends (11 + 35).
AAANSTC unscrambles to CANASTA: these are all the words its letters make. Looking for satanac, naaastc, naaacts, asacant, sanatac, santaca, acsatan, caastan or canatas? They use the same letters as CANASTA, so the words on this page are their answers too.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from CANASTA by length: 1 with 7 letters, 3 with 6, 8 with 5, 19 with 4, 16 with 3 and 7 with 2.
Keep every letter of CANASTA but one, change that one, and you get:
More 7-letter words: starting with CA · ending in TA · all 7-letter words
What CANASTA means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept CANASTA, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| CANASTA itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 54) | 42 | 54 | 37 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 12 of them: ANATAS, CAAS, ANATA, CAA, TANAS, NATS, SANT, TANA, ANS, NAS, NAT and ST. Words With Friends* skips 5 of them: TACANS, TACAN, STAN, ATS and SAN.
These 6 words take every letter of CANASTA plus a single extra one.