Chantey is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.
You can make 193 anagrams from letters in chantey (acehnty).
1855-60; alteration of French chanter to sing; see chant
The song or chantey was familiar to deep-sea sailors many years ago.
That wan't no rum and woman song, that was the old 'Whisky, Johnny' chantey.
He was piecing out the chantey and fitting words to it, and succeeding rather well.
Voices rippled from chantey to roundelay and back to chantey again.
Then, far across the harbor, I heard the great voice of a chantey man singing while the crew heaved at the windlass.