What CANNING Means
CANNING is a form of CAN, which means:
- noun: airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc.
- noun: the quantity contained in a can
- verb: preserve in a can or tin“tinned foods are not very tasty”
- verb: terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position“The boss fired his secretary today”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
CANNING is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as C3 A1 N1 N1 I1 N1 G2.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 60 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In CANNING
30 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 (1)
5 letter words (2)
4 letter words (9)
3 letter words (12)
2 letter words (6)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.