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HONKING

7 letters, 15 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What HONKING Means

HONKING is a form of HONK, which means:

  1. verb: make a strident noise“The horns of the taxis blared”
  2. verb: use the horn of a car
  3. noun: the cry of a goose (or any sound resembling this)

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

HONKING is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 15 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as H4 O1 N1 K5 I1 N1 G2.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 65 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In HONKING

53 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 (3)

4 letter words (16)

3 letter words (20)

2 letter words (12)

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