Definitions for chantages

chantages chan·tage

Spelling: [shahn-tazh]
IPA: /ʃɑ̃ˈtaʒ/

Chantages is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 467 anagrams from letters in chantages (aaceghnst).

Definitions for chantages

noun

  1. blackmail.

Origin of chantages

First recorded in 1870-75

Examples for chantages

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

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.

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

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

Word Value for chantages
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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