What HANGING Means
- noun: decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window“the cold castle walls were covered with hangings”
- noun: a form of capital punishment; victim is suspended by the neck from a gallows or gibbet until dead“in those days the hanging of criminals was a public entertainment”
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
HANGING 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 H4 A1 N1 G2 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.
Words Made From The Letters In HANGING
46 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 (5)
4 letter words (14)
3 letter words (18)
2 letter words (9)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.