What PITHING Means
PITHING is a form of PITH, which means:
- noun: soft spongelike central cylinder of the stems of most flowering plants
- noun: the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience“the gist of the prosecutor's argument”
- verb: remove the pith from (a plant)
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
PITHING 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 I1 T1 H4 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 PITHING
41 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 (12)
3 letter words (19)
2 letter words (6)
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