What TUGGING Means
TUGGING is a form of TUG, which means:
- verb: pull hard“The prisoner tugged at the chains”
- verb: strive and make an effort to reach a goal“She tugged for years to make a decent living”
- noun: a sudden abrupt pull
- noun: a powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
TUGGING is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 10 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as T1 U1 G2 G2 I1 N1 G2.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 60 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In TUGGING
31 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 (1)
4 letter words (5)
3 letter words (16)
2 letter words (9)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.