What JAILING Means
JAILING is a form of JAIL, which means:
- noun: a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)
- verb: lock up or confine, in or as in a jail“The suspects were imprisoned without trial”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
JAILING is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 15 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as J8 A1 I1 L1 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 JAILING
48 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 (4)
5 letter words (5)
4 letter words (13)
3 letter words (16)
2 letter words (10)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.