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Is cantle a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word cantle is a Scrabble US word. The word cantle is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Is cantle a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word cantle is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

C3A1N1T1L1E1

Is cantle a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word cantle is a Words With Friends word. The word cantle is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (3 found)

CANTLE,CENTAL,LANCET,

5-letter words (9 found)

ANCLE,CLEAN,CLEAT,ECLAT,ENACT,LACET,LANCE,LATEN,LEANT,

4-letter words (29 found)

ACNE,ALEC,ANCE,ANTE,CANE,CANT,CATE,CELT,CENT,CLAN,CLAT,ELAN,ETNA,LACE,LANE,LANT,LATE,LEAN,LEAT,LENT,NEAL,NEAT,TACE,TAEL,TALC,TALE,TANE,TEAL,TELA,

3-letter words (28 found)

ACE,ACT,ALE,ALT,ANE,ANT,ATE,CAL,CAN,CAT,CEL,EAN,EAT,ELT,ETA,LAC,LAT,LEA,LET,NAE,NAT,NET,TAE,TAN,TEA,TEC,TEL,TEN,

2-letter words (13 found)

AE,AL,AN,AT,EA,EL,EN,ET,LA,NA,NE,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 83 words from cantle according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of cantle

cantle

Etymology

From Middle English cantle, cantel, from Old Northern French cantel, Old French chantel (Modern French chanteau, Bourguignon chainteâ), from Medieval Latin cantellus, diminutive of Latin cantus (“corner”). Compare cant (Etymology 3).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkantəl/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈkæntəl/
  • Rhymes: (US) -æntəl

Noun

cantle (plural cantles)

  1. (obsolete) A splinter, slice, or sliver broken off something.
    • , Act III, Scene i:
      See how this river comes me cranking in, / And cuts me from the best of all my land / A huge half-moon, a monstrous cantle out.
    • 1600, Edward Fairfax (tr.), The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book VI, xlviii:
      Their armors forged were of metal frail; / On every side thereof huge cantles flies; / The land was strewed all with plate and mail, / That on the earth, on that their warm blood lies.
  2. The raised back of a saddle.
  3. (Scotland) The top of the head.
  4. (Scotland) On many styles of sporran, a metal arc along the top of the pouch, usually fronting the clasp.

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Verb

cantle (third-person singular simple present cantles, present participle cantling, simple past and past participle cantled)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To cut into pieces.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To cut out from.

Anagrams

  • Lancet, cantel, cental, lancet

Source: wiktionary.org