100 words come out when you unscramble CANTION, starting with CANTION itself: 9 in Scrabble, 12 in Words With Friends. 2 anagrams of CANTION are on the page: ACTINON and CONTAIN, each 9 points. The best shorter words score 8: 7 of them, ACTION, CANTON and CATION included. It has 7 letters, 3 vowels and 4 consonants. CANTION as a single 7-tile play makes 59 in Scrabble, 9 plus the 50 bonus, and 47 in Words With Friends (12 + 35).
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from CANTION split into 3 with 7 letters, 9 with 6, 16 with 5, 31 with 4, 28 with 3 and 13 with 2.
Of the 31 4-letter words you get when you unscramble CANTION, 16 score 6 points, the group's best. ANTI, ICON and COAT are the ones most people know.
Trade one tile of CANTION for another and you can spell these 6 words:
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Here is what the 8 strongest answers mean; ACTINON and CONTAIN (9 points each) share the top spot.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Scrabble UK accepts CANTION, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| CANTION itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 100) | 79 | 100 | 75 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
21 of the 100 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: CANTION, ACTON, CONIA, ATOC, CANN, CITO, COIT, OCTA, CIT, NOINT, TOC, ANNO and 9 more. 4 of the 100 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: NANO, NONI, TIAN and OI.
With one more tile, the letters of CANTION spell the words below.