What GAINING Means
GAINING is a form of GAIN, which means:
- verb: obtain“derive pleasure from one's garden”
- verb: win something through one's efforts“I acquired a passing knowledge of Chinese”
- noun: a quantity that is added“there was an addition to property taxes this year”
- noun: the advantageous quality of being beneficial
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
GAINING 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 G2 A1 I1 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 GAINING
30 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 (2)
4 letter words (10)
3 letter words (12)
2 letter words (6)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.