STAYING Meaning, Scrabble Score and Anagrams

What STAYING Means

STAYING is a form of STAY, which means:

verb: stay the same; remain in a certain state“The dress remained wet after repeated attempts to dry it”
verb: be in a certain place and not leave“We are staying in Detroit; we are not moving to Cincinnati”
noun: continuing or remaining in a place or state“they had a nice stay in Paris”
noun: the state of inactivity following an interruption“the negotiations were in arrest”

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

STAYING is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 T1 A1 Y4 I1 N1 G2.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 61 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Anagrams of STAYING (1)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

STYGIAN

Words Made From The Letters In STAYING

168 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.