What LURKING Means
LURKING is a form of LURK, which means:
- verb: lie in wait, lie in ambush, behave in a sneaky and secretive manner
- verb: be about a place without any apparent purpose“The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
LURKING is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as L1 U1 R1 K5 I1 N1 G2.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 62 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In LURKING
64 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 (2)
5 letter words (5)
4 letter words (25)
GINKGIRLGIRNGRINGUNKGURLGURNIGLUKILNKINGKIRNKNURKURILINGLINKLIRKLUNGLUNKLURKNIRLNURLRINGRINKRUINRUNG
3 letter words (23)
2 letter words (9)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.