What PHONING Means
PHONING is a form of PHONE, which means:
- noun: electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds“I talked to him on the telephone”
- noun: (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language
- verb: get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone“I tried to call you all night”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
PHONING is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as P3 H4 O1 N1 I1 N1 G2.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 63 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In PHONING
57 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 (7)
4 letter words (11)
3 letter words (24)
2 letter words (13)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.