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FUNKING

7 letters, 15 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What FUNKING Means

FUNKING is a form of FUNK, which means:

  1. noun: a state of nervous depression“he was in a funk”
  2. noun: an earthy type of jazz combining it with blues and soul; has a heavy bass line that accentuates the first beat in the bar
  3. verb: draw back, as with fear or pain“she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

FUNKING is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 15 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as F4 U1 N1 K5 I1 N1 G2.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 65 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In FUNKING

34 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 (1)

4 letter words (8)

3 letter words (15)

2 letter words (8)

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