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LEERING

7 letters, 8 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What LEERING Means

  1. adjective: showing sly or knowing malice in a glance“she had run in fear of … his evil leering eye”
  2. adjective: (of a glance) sidelong and slyly lascivious“leering drugstore cowboys”

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

LEERING 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 L1 E1 E1 R1 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 LEERING (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In LEERING

99 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 (9)

5 letter words (19)

4 letter words (31)

3 letter words (31)

2 letter words (9)

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