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PLAINING

8 letters, 11 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What PLAINING Means

PLAINING is a form of PLAIN, which means:

  1. adjective: clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment“the effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who sees the parched fields”
  2. adjective: not elaborate or elaborated; simple“plain food”
  3. noun: extensive tract of level open land“they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain”
  4. noun: a basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stitch from the lefthand side

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

PLAINING 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 P3 L1 A1 I1 N1 I1 N1 G2.

Words Made From The Letters In PLAINING

99 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 (4)

6 letter words (14)

5 letter words (15)

4 letter words (28)

3 letter words (27)

2 letter words (11)

Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.