Canasta
7 lettersnounmoderateUpdated June 2026
Definition
A card game played with two standard decks plus jokers in which players aim to form matched sets of seven or more cards of the same rank.
“They spent the rainy afternoon playing canasta at the kitchen table.”
Pronunciation
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ca·nas·ta
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Wordle
Three A vowels, ends in A which is uncommon in English words and worth guessing early
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Scrabble
Worth 9 points, three A tiles are awkward to hold but this word places them all in a single turn
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