LINGERS Meaning, Scrabble Score and Anagrams

What LINGERS Means

LINGERS is a form of LINGER, which means:

verb: remain present although waning or gradually dying“Her perfume lingered on”
verb: be about a place without any apparent purpose“The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square”

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

LINGERS 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 I1 N1 G2 E1 R1 S1.

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 LINGERS (2)

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

GIRNELS SLINGER

Words Made From The Letters In LINGERS

168 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 (17)

GIRNEL GREINS GRILSE INGLES LERING LIGERS LIGNES LINERS LINGER NIGERS REIGNS RENIGS RESIGN SERING SIGNER SINGER SINGLE

5 letter words (43)

4 letter words (57)

3 letter words (40)

ELS ENG ENS ERG ERN ERS GEL GEN GER GIE GIN GIS ING INS IRE LEG LEI LES LIE LIG LIN LIS NEG NIE NIL NIS REG REI REN RES RIG RIN SEG SEI SEL SEN SER SIN SIR SRI

2 letter words (11)

EL EN ER ES GI IN IS LI NE RE SI

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

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