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TILTING

7 letters, 8 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What TILTING Means

TILTING is a form of TILT, which means:

  1. noun: a combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances
  2. noun: a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement“they were involved in a violent argument”
  3. verb: to incline or bend from a vertical position“She leaned over the banister”
  4. verb: heel over“The tower is tilting”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

TILTING 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 I1 L1 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 TILTING (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In TILTING

30 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 (3)

5 letter words (2)

4 letter words (9)

3 letter words (11)

2 letter words (5)

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