What FENDING Means
FENDING is a form of FEND, which means:
- verb: try to manage without help“The youngsters had to fend for themselves after their parents died”
- verb: withstand the force of something“The trees resisted her”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
FENDING 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 F4 E1 N1 D2 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 FENDING
70 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 (3)
5 letter words (7)
4 letter words (18)
3 letter words (31)
2 letter words (11)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.