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GREYING

7 letters, 12 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What GREYING Means

GREYING is a form of GREY, which means:

  1. noun: any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are grey“the Confederate army was a vast grey”
  2. noun: a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black
  3. adjective: of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black“the little grey cells”
  4. adjective: showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair“whose beard with age is hoar”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

GREYING is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as G2 R1 E1 Y4 I1 N1 G2.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 62 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Anagrams of GREYING (1)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In GREYING

58 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 (8)

4 letter words (16)

3 letter words (24)

2 letter words (8)

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