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SKIDDING

8 letters, 15 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What SKIDDING Means

SKIDDING is a form of SKID, which means:

  1. verb: slide without control“the car skidded in the curve on the wet road”
  2. verb: elevate onto skids
  3. noun: one of a pair of planks used to make a track for rolling or sliding objects
  4. noun: a restraint provided when the brake linings are moved hydraulically against the brake drum to retard the wheel's rotation

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

SKIDDING is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 15 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 K5 I1 D2 D2 I1 N1 G2.

Words Made From The Letters In SKIDDING

58 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 (2)

6 letter words (3)

5 letter words (4)

4 letter words (23)

3 letter words (19)

2 letter words (7)

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