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DRIVING

7 letters, 12 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What DRIVING Means

  1. noun: hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver“he sliced his drive out of bounds”
  2. noun: the act of controlling and steering the movement of a vehicle or animal
  3. adjective: having the power of driving or impelling“a driving personal ambition”
  4. adjective: acting with vigor“responsibility turned the spoiled playboy into a driving young executive”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

DRIVING is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as D2 R1 I1 V4 I1 N1 G2.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 62 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In DRIVING

37 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 (5)

5 letter words (5)

4 letter words (10)

3 letter words (13)

2 letter words (4)

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