cant
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When cant helps
Base Score
1
Before any board-specific bonus
Unique Letters
4
A C N T
Two-Letter Start
CA
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
NT
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- 4 letters
- 4 unique letters
- CA start
- NT ending
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- cant is a four-letter word, so it is worth 1 point when accepted.
- It uses 4 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include a, c, n, t plus any remaining hive letters.
- The NT ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the CA start.
- BuzzyWords has saved this word in 1 published Daily snapshot.
Pronunciation
noun
An argot, the jargon of a particular class or subgroup.
"He had the look of a prince, but the cant of a fishmonger."
noun
A private or secret language used by a religious sect, gang, or other group.
noun
A language spoken by some Irish Travellers; Shelta.
noun
Empty, hypocritical talk.
"People claim to care about the poor of Africa, but it is largely cant."
noun
Whining speech, such as that used by beggars.
noun
A blazon of a coat of arms that makes a pun upon the name (or, less often, some attribute or function) of the bearer, canting arms.
noun
A call for bidders at a public fair; an auction.
verb
To speak with the jargon of a class or subgroup.
verb
To speak in set phrases.
verb
To preach in a singsong fashion, especially in a false or empty manner.
verb
Of a blazon, to make a pun that references the bearer of a coat of arms.
verb
To sell by auction, or bid at an auction.
noun
Side, edge, corner, niche.
"Under the cant of a hill."
noun
Slope, the angle at which something is set.
noun
A corner (of a building).
noun
An outer or external angle.
noun
An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a tilt.
noun
A movement or throw that overturns something.
noun
A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so given.
"to give a ball a cant"
noun
(coopering) A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.
noun
A segment of the rim of a wooden cogwheel.
noun
A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.
verb
To set (something) at an angle.
"to cant a cask; to cant a ship"
verb
To give a sudden turn or new direction to.
"to cant round a stick of timber; to cant a football"
verb
To bevel an edge or corner.
verb
To overturn so that the contents are emptied.
noun
A parcel, a division.
verb
To divide or parcel out.
adjective
Lively, lusty.