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BALKING

7 letters, 14 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What BALKING Means

  1. adjective: refusing to proceed, act or work“a balking”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

BALKING is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 A1 L1 K5 I1 N1 G2.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 64 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In BALKING

105 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.

6 letter words (4)

5 letter words (18)

4 letter words (39)

3 letter words (30)

2 letter words (14)

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