What CRANING Means
CRANING is a form of CRANE, which means:
- noun: lifts and moves heavy objects; lifting tackle is suspended from a pivoted boom that rotates around a vertical axis
- noun: large long-necked wading bird of marshes and plains in many parts of the world
- verb: stretch (the neck) so as to see better“The women craned their necks to see the President drive by”
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
CRANING 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 R1 A1 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.
Anagrams of CRANING (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In CRANING
69 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 (10)
4 letter words (26)
3 letter words (22)
2 letter words (7)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.