What BILKING Means
BILKING is a form of BILK, which means:
- verb: cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money
- verb: hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of“What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
BILKING 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 I1 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 BILKING
36 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 (3)
5 letter words (5)
4 letter words (10)
3 letter words (13)
2 letter words (5)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.