What CANKERS Means
CANKERS is a form of CANKER, which means:
- noun: a fungal disease of woody plants that causes localized damage to the bark
- noun: an ulceration (especially of the lips or lining of the mouth)
- verb: become infected with a canker
- verb: infect with a canker
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
CANKERS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 13 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as C3 A1 N1 K5 E1 R1 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 63 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Anagrams of CANKERS (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In CANKERS
203 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
6 letter words (18)
5 letter words (62)
4 letter words (71)
3 letter words (40)
2 letter words (12)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.