What TEASING Means
- noun: the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances“he ignored their teases”
- noun: playful vexation“the parody was just a form of teasing”
- adjective: playfully vexing (especially by ridicule)“his face wore a somewhat quizzical almost impertinent air”
- adjective: arousing sexual desire without intending to satisfy it“her lazy teasing smile”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
TEASING 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 T1 E1 A1 S1 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 TEASING (10)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In TEASING
272 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 (22)
5 letter words (61)
4 letter words (102)
3 letter words (66)
2 letter words (21)
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