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ZEROING

7 letters, 17 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What ZEROING Means

ZEROING is a form of ZERO, which means:

  1. noun: a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential“it looked like nothing I had ever seen before”
  2. noun: a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number
  3. adjective: indicating the absence of any or all units under consideration“a zero score”
  4. adjective: having no measurable or otherwise determinable value“the goal is zero population growth”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

ZEROING is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 17 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as Z10 E1 R1 O1 I1 N1 G2.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 67 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In ZEROING

100 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 (4)

5 letter words (16)

4 letter words (32)

3 letter words (34)

2 letter words (14)

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