What BARKING Means
BARKING is a form of BARK, which means:
- verb: speak in an unfriendly tone“She barked into the dictaphone”
- verb: cover with bark
- noun: tough protective covering of the woody stems and roots of trees and other woody plants
- noun: a noise resembling the bark of a dog
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
BARKING 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 R1 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.
Anagrams of BARKING (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In BARKING
120 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 (15)
4 letter words (55)
3 letter words (34)
2 letter words (12)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.