What GRATING Means
- noun: a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air
- noun: a frame of iron bars to hold a fire
- adjective: unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound“a gravelly voice”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
GRATING 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 R1 A1 T1 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 GRATING (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In GRATING
107 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 (6)
5 letter words (14)
4 letter words (43)
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3 letter words (33)
2 letter words (11)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.