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BEARINGS

8 letters, 11 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What BEARINGS Means

BEARINGS is a form of BEARING, which means:

  1. noun: relevant relation or interconnection“those issues have no bearing on our situation”
  2. noun: the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies
  3. adjective: (of a structural member) withstanding a weight or strain

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

BEARINGS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as B3 E1 A1 R1 I1 N1 G2 S1.

Anagrams of BEARINGS (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In BEARINGS

448 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.

7 letter words (16)

6 letter words (61)

5 letter words (120)

4 letter words (147)

3 letter words (83)

2 letter words (21)

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