What NAILING Means
NAILING is a form of NAIL, which means:
- verb: attach something somewhere by means of nails“nail the board onto the wall”
- verb: take into custody“the police nabbed the suspected criminals”
- noun: horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits
- noun: a thin pointed piece of metal that is hammered into materials as a fastener
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
NAILING 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 N1 A1 I1 L1 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 NAILING (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In NAILING
53 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 (6)
5 letter words (7)
4 letter words (16)
3 letter words (15)
2 letter words (9)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.