canter

canter is a 6-letter English word with 10 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A moderate and easy gallop adapted to pleasure riding. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 10 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A moderate and easy gallop adapted to pleasure riding.
2. noun. A rapid or easy passing over.
3. intransitive verb. To move in a canter.
4. transitive verb. To cause, as a horse, to go at a canter; to ride (a horse) at a canter.
5. noun. One who cants or whines; a beggar.
6. noun. One who makes hypocritical pretensions to goodness; one who uses canting language.
7. noun. a smooth three-beat gait; between a trot and a gallop

   Synonyms: lope

8. verb. ride at a canter

   "The men cantered away"

9. verb. ride at a cantering pace

   "He cantered the horse across the meadow"

10. verb. go at a canter, of horses

Synonyms

lope

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in canter:

carnet, centra, cranet, creant, cretan, nectar, recant, tanrec, trance

Common word forms

canters, cantered, canterer, cantering

Words from these letters

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