What HACKING Means
HACKING is a form of HACK, which means:
- noun: one who works hard at boring tasks
- noun: a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
- verb: cut with a hacking tool
- verb: be able to manage or manage successfully“I can't hack it anymore”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
HACKING is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 17 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as H4 A1 C3 K5 I1 N1 G2.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 67 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In HACKING
85 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 (14)
4 letter words (31)
AGINAKINANKHCAINCANGCHAICHIACHIKCHINGAINGINKHACKHAIKHAINHANGHANKHICKHINGIKANINCHKAINKANGKHANKINAKINGKNAGNACHNAIKNGAINICKNIGH
3 letter words (26)
2 letter words (12)
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