What PAINING Means
PAINING is a form of PAIN, which means:
- noun: a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder“the patient developed severe pain and distension”
- noun: emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid“the pain of loneliness”
- verb: cause bodily suffering to and make sick or indisposed
- verb: cause emotional anguish or make miserable“It pains me to see my children not being taught well in school”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
PAINING is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as P3 A1 I1 N1 I1 N1 G2.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 60 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In PAINING
48 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 (5)
5 letter words (5)
4 letter words (13)
3 letter words (17)
2 letter words (8)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.