What SORTING Means
- noun: an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion“the bottleneck in mail delivery is the process of sorting”
- noun: the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
SORTING 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 S1 O1 R1 T1 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 SORTING (3)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In SORTING
185 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 (19)
5 letter words (46)
4 letter words (63)
3 letter words (41)
2 letter words (16)
Next: the full rack page for these seven tiles, and the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.