Canastas is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.
You can make 114 anagrams from letters in canastas (aaacnsst).
1945-50; Spanish: literally, basket, apparently variant of canastro Greek kánastron wicker basket (see canister)
There were the Jones' for bridge and the Graysons' for canasta and charades with the Bryants.
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