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DUSTING

7 letters, 9 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What DUSTING Means

DUSTING is a form of DUST, which means:

  1. verb: remove the dust from“dust the cabinets”
  2. verb: rub the dust over a surface so as to blur the outlines of a shape“The artist dusted the charcoal drawing down to a faint image”
  3. noun: fine powdery material such as dry earth or pollen that can be blown about in the air“the furniture was covered with dust”
  4. noun: the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

DUSTING 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 S1 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 DUSTING

127 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 (1)

5 letter words (20)

4 letter words (49)

3 letter words (42)

2 letter words (15)

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