What STING Means
- noun: a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung“the sting of death”
- noun: a mental pain or distress“a pang of conscience”
- verb: cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort“The sun burned his face”
- verb: deliver a sting to“A bee stung my arm yesterday”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
STING is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 T1 I1 N1 G2.
Anagrams of STING (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In STING
32 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 (7)
Longer Words Containing STING
STING appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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