What LINGS Means
LINGS is a form of LING, which means:
- noun: water chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4 prongs
- noun: common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the Northern Hemisphere
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
LINGS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as L1 I1 N1 G2 S1.
Anagrams of LINGS (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In LINGS
24 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.
4 letter words (9)
3 letter words (10)
2 letter words (5)
Longer Words Containing LINGS
LINGS appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
ABLINGSABSEILINGSAISLINGSAMBLINGSANGLINGSANNEALINGSATHELINGSBABBLINGSBALLINGSBANTLINGSBARDLINGSBAWLINGSBEAGLINGSBELLINGSBEVELLINGSBEWAILINGSBILLINGSBIRLINGSBLINGSBOILINGSBOTTLINGSBOWLINGSBRAMBLINGSBRANDLINGSBRANGLINGSBRATLINGSBRATTLINGSBRAWLINGSBRISLINGSBUCKLINGSBULLINGSBUMBLINGSBUNDLINGSBUNGLINGSBURBLINGSCABLINGSCAGELINGSCALLINGSCARLINGSCAROLINGS
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.