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IRONING

7 letters, 8 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What IRONING Means

  1. noun: garments (clothes or linens) that are to be (or have been) ironed“there was a basketful of ironing to do”
  2. noun: the work of using heat to smooth washed clothes in order to remove any wrinkles

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

IRONING is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as I1 R1 O1 N1 I1 N1 G2.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 58 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Anagrams of IRONING (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In IRONING

41 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 (1)

5 letter words (5)

4 letter words (15)

3 letter words (12)

2 letter words (8)

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