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CITING

6 letters, 9 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What CITING Means

CITING is a form of CITE, which means:

  1. verb: make reference to“he was named in connection with the invention”
  2. verb: commend“he was cited for his outstanding achievements”
  3. noun: a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage“the student's essay failed to list several important citations”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

CITING is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as C3 I1 T1 I1 N1 G2.

Anagrams of CITING (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In CITING

16 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.

5 letter words (1)

4 letter words (2)

3 letter words (9)

2 letter words (4)

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