Definitions for chantage

chantage chan·tage

Spelling: [shahn-tazh]
IPA: /ʃɑ̃ˈtaʒ/

Chantage is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 237 anagrams from letters in chantage (aaceghnt).

Definitions for chantage

noun

  1. blackmail.

Origin of chantage

First recorded in 1870-75

Examples for chantage

With men such as Capt, chantage, as the French call it, is a favourite mode of obtaining wealth.

Thus the very basest of all trades, that of chantage, is encouraged by the law.

There are in London and every large city scores of men and women who live by blackmailing or chantage.

This, of course, does not prove that the Members of the Council are amenable to chantage.

That was a bit of 'chantage' that you did with Dauriat; he gave you a thousand crowns to let Nathan alone.

Word Value for chantage
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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