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

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Is canton a Scrabble UK word?

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6-letter words (2 found)

CANNOT,CANTON,

5-letter words (6 found)

ACTON,ANCON,CANON,CANTO,COTAN,OCTAN,

4-letter words (12 found)

ANNO,ANON,ATOC,CANN,CANT,COAT,CONN,NANO,NONA,NOTA,OCTA,TACO,

3-letter words (17 found)

ACT,ANN,ANT,CAN,CAT,CON,COT,NAN,NAT,NON,NOT,OAT,OCA,TAN,TAO,TOC,TON,

2-letter words (7 found)

AN,AT,NA,NO,ON,TA,TO,

You can make 44 words from canton according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of canton

canton

Etymology 1

1530s, from Middle French canton, from Old French canton (“corner”); heraldic sense from the 1570s, geographic sense from c. 1600.

Alternative forms

  • kanton

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkæntn̩/
  • IPA(key): /ˈkæntɒn/ (especially in the flag sense)

Noun

canton (plural cantons)

  2. A division of a political unit.
    • 1912, Joseph McCabe (translator), We Must Take Sides; or, The Principal of Action (originally by Voltaire)
      These three millions live in a small canton of Egypt which cannot maintain twenty thousand people
    • 20 May, 1686, Gilbert Burnet, letter from Nimmengen
    2. One of the states comprising the Swiss Confederation.
    3. A subdivision of an arrondissement of France.
    4. A division of Luxembourg, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, etc.
    5. (obsolete) A subdivision of a county, of Quebec, Canada; equivalent to a township.
  3. A small community or clan.
  4. A subdivision of a flag, the rectangular inset on the upper hoist (i.e., flagpole) side (e.g., the stars of the US national flag are in a canton).
  6. (heraldry) A division of a shield occupying one third of the chief, usually on the dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top meeting a horizontal line from the side.
Translations

Verb

canton (third-person singular simple present cantons, present participle cantoning, simple past and past participle cantoned)

  1. (transitive) To delineate as a separate district.
  2. (transitive) To divide into cantons.
  3. (transitive) To allot quarters to troops.

Etymology 2

Noun

canton (plural cantons)

  1. (obsolete) A song or canto.

See also

  • pancit canton

Anagrams

  • Conant, Nacton, cannot, nonact, noncat

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French canton, from Old French canton (from the 1240s), from Old Occitan canton (“corner; canton”) (recorded before 1218), adopted in Occitan from North Italian (Gallo-Italic, early Lombard) cantone (“edge, corner; canton”), ultimately representing Latin cant- (“rim (of a wheel)”) with the addition of the -ō (accusative -ōnem) suffix forming augmentatives in Romance.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɑ̃.tɔ̃/

Noun

canton m (plural cantons)

  1. canton (of Switzerland, France or Luxembourg)
  2. township (of Canada)
  3. (heraldry) canton

Descendants

  • → German: Kanton

Further reading

  • “canton”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Occitan

Etymology

From Gallo-Italic cantone. From canto + -one. Related to Latin canthus (“rim (of a wheel)”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kanˈtu/

Noun

canton m (plural cantons)

  1. corner
  2. canton

Derived terms

  • cantonal
  • cantonar
  • cantonada

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French canton.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kanˈton/

Noun

canton n (plural cantoane)

  1. canton

Declension

Derived terms

  • cantonal

Further reading

  • canton in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Venetian

Noun

canton m (plural cantoni)

  1. corner

Derived terms

  • cantonzsin

Source: wiktionary.org