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BRAKING

7 letters, 14 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What BRAKING Means

BRAKING is a form of BRAKE, which means:

  1. noun: a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle
  2. noun: any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants
  3. verb: stop travelling by applying a brake“We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road”
  4. verb: cause to stop by applying the brakes“brake the car before you go into a curve”

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

BRAKING 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 R1 A1 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 BRAKING (1)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In BRAKING

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)

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