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DUNNING

7 letters, 9 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What DUNNING Means

DUNNING is a form of DUN, which means:

  1. verb: treat cruelly“The children tormented the stuttering teacher”
  2. verb: persistently ask for overdue payment“The grocer dunned his customers every day by telephone”
  3. noun: horse of a dull brownish grey color
  4. noun: a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color“she wore dun”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

DUNNING 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 D2 U1 N1 N1 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 DUNNING

27 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 (4)

3 letter words (14)

2 letter words (8)

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