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PINGS

5 letters, 8 points in Scrabble, 1 vowel

What PINGS Means

PINGS is a form of PING, which means:

  1. verb: hit with a pinging noise“The bugs pinged the lamp shade”
  2. verb: sound like a car engine that is firing too early“the car pinged when I put in low-octane gasoline”
  3. noun: a sharp high-pitched resonant sound (as of a sonar echo or a bullet striking metal)

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

PINGS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as P3 I1 N1 G2 S1.

Words Made From The Letters In PINGS

30 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.

4 letter words (12)

3 letter words (13)

2 letter words (5)

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