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DOTTING

7 letters, 9 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What DOTTING Means

DOTTING is a form of DOT, which means:

  1. verb: scatter or intersperse like dots or studs“Hills constellated with lights”
  2. verb: distribute loosely“He scattered gun powder under the wagon”
  3. noun: a very small circular shape“a row of points”
  4. noun: the shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

DOTTING is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as D2 O1 T1 T1 I1 N1 G2.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 59 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In DOTTING

66 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 (2)

5 letter words (7)

4 letter words (16)

3 letter words (27)

2 letter words (14)

Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.