What REELING Means
REELING is a form of REEL, which means:
- noun: a roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector
- noun: music composed for dancing a reel
- verb: walk as if unable to control one's movements“The drunken man staggered into the room”
- verb: revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis“The dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
REELING is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 8 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as R1 E1 E1 L1 I1 N1 G2.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 58 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Anagrams of REELING (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In REELING
99 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 (9)
5 letter words (19)
4 letter words (31)
3 letter words (31)
2 letter words (9)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.