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FORMING

7 letters, 13 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What FORMING Means

FORMING is a form of FORM, which means:

  1. noun: the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something“the inflected forms of a word can be represented by a stem and a list of inflections to be attached”
  2. noun: a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality“sculpture is a form of art”
  3. verb: create (as an entity)“social groups form everywhere”
  4. verb: to compose or represent“This wall forms the background of the stage setting”

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

FORMING is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 13 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as F4 O1 R1 M3 I1 N1 G2.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 63 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In FORMING

79 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 (4)

4 letter words (30)

3 letter words (30)

2 letter words (13)

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