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Is can a Scrabble word?

Yes, can is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 5 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of can?

Definition

verb (English)

1. (auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to.Examples: "She can speak English, French, and German."; "I can play football."; "prouyng which eny clerk can or woel or mai make bi eny maner euydence of resoun or of Scripture, and namelich of resoun into the contrarie."Antonyms: cannot, can'tauxiliarydefective

2. (auxiliary verb, defective) To be able to.Examples: "Can you remember your fifth birthday?"; "Animals can experience emotions."; "Can you hear that?"Synonyms: be able toAntonyms: cannot, can'tauxiliarydefective

3. (modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) May; to be permitted or enabled to.Examples: "You can go outside and play when you're finished with your homework."; "Can I use your pen?"Synonyms: mayAntonyms: cannot, can't, may not, mayn'tauxiliarydefectiveinformalmodal

4. (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have the potential to; to be possible for (someone or something) to.Examples: "Can it be Friday already?"; "Teenagers can really try their parents' patience."; "The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.[…]Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?"Antonyms: cannot, can'tauxiliarydefectivemodal

5. (modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) Used to form requests, typically polite.Examples: "Can you please come over here?"; "Can we try that scene again?"auxiliarydefectiveinformalmodal

6. (obsolete, transitive) To know.Examples: "ca.1360-1387, William Langland, Piers Plowman I can rimes of Robin Hood."; "ca.1360-1387, William Langland, Piers Plowman I can no Latin, quod she."; "Let the priest in surplice white, / That defunctive music can."Synonyms: cognize, grok, kenobsoletetransitive

intj (English)

1. (Manglish, Singlish) OK, sure; indicates approval or acknowledgment.ManglishSinglish

2. (Manglish, Singlish, with falling or rising-falling pitch) Used to convey reassurance.ManglishSinglish

particle (English)

1. (Manglish, Singlish, interrogative) OK(?); used at the end of a question when seeking approval or acknowledgment.Examples: "I cut this wire, can?"; "Can you go collect them or not? The shop is at Jalan Sultan. I’m not free, otherwise I’ll do it myself. Can?"; "It feels like a cheap gimmick to attract environmentalist types, when I don’t see any concrete policies to address that. If you don’t care, then don’t pretend to care leh. If you care, then make sure you got details to back you up, can?"ManglishSinglishinterrogative

noun (English)

1. (archaic) A chamber pot.archaic

2. (archaic) A chamber pot.Examples: "Shit or get off the can."; "Bob's in the can. You can wait a few minutes or just leave it with me."; "I didn't have anything special to do, so I went down to the can and chewed the rag with him while he was shaving."Synonyms: bedpan, can, chamber, chamber pot, chemical toilet, commode, Cousin John, crapperUSarchaicslang

3. (childish or vulgar, slang, Canada, US) Buttocks.CanadaUSchildishslangvulgar

4. (vulgar, slang, Canada, US) The breasts of a woman.CanadaUSslangvulgar

5. (slang) Jail or prison.Examples: "Bob’s in the can. He won’t be back for a few years."; "The undercover cop never liked the Monkey Man / Even back in childhood, he wanted to see him in the can"slang

6. (slang, in the plural) Headphones.in-pluralslang

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To seal in a can.Examples: "They canned air to sell as a novelty to tourists."transitive

2. (transitive) To preserve by heating and sealing in a jar or can.Examples: "They spent August canning fruit and vegetables."transitive

3. (transitive) To discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).Examples: "He canned the whole project because he thought it would fail."; "My next stop is Oxford, which has also grown with the addition of new platforms to accommodate the Chiltern Railways service to London via Bicester - although, short sightedly, the planned electrification from Paddington was canned. Evidence of the volte-face can be seen along the line at places such as Radley, where mast piles are already sunk or lie discarded at the lineside."Synonyms: bintransitive

4. (transitive, slang) To shut up.Examples: "Can your gob."; "Maurrant: Aw, can all that talk! You been listenin’ to them bolshevikis, that’s the trouble."Synonyms: can itslangtransitive

5. (US, euphemistic, transitive) To fire or dismiss an employee.Examples: "The boss canned him for speaking out."; "As a result of his refusal, the employee was subsequently canned in 2015 on the basis of "professional inadequacy" and failing to embody the "party" atmosphere that the consultancy was trying to cultivate."Synonyms: axeUSeuphemistictransitive

6. (golf, slang, transitive) To hole the ball.Examples: "I thought I had canned it, but it just missed, and I tapped in the second one for a par."slangtransitive

name (English)

1. (computing, manufacturing, automotive) Abbreviation of Controller Area Network, ISO standards 11898, 11898-1, 11898-2, and its predecessor standards.abbreviationalt-of

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "can"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "can"?

Scrabble
5 points
C3
A1
N1
Words With Friends
7 points
C4
A1
N2

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