What PECKING Means
PECKING is a form of PECK, which means:
- noun: (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent“a batch of letters”
- noun: a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 gallons
- verb: hit lightly with a picking motion
- verb: eat by pecking at, like a bird
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
PECKING is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 16 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as P3 E1 C3 K5 I1 N1 G2.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 66 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In PECKING
62 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.
5 letter words (4)
4 letter words (22)
3 letter words (29)
2 letter words (7)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.