What GAOLING Means
GAOLING is a form of GAOL, which means:
- noun: a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)
- verb: lock up or confine, in or as in a jail“The suspects were imprisoned without trial”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
GAOLING 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 O1 L1 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.
Anagrams of GAOLING (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In GAOLING
89 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 (5)
5 letter words (18)
4 letter words (28)
3 letter words (23)
2 letter words (15)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.