SWALLOWING

What SWALLOWING Means

SWALLOWING is a form of SWALLOW, which means:

1. verb: pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking“Swallow the raw fish, it won't kill you!”
2. verb: engulf and destroy“The Nazis swallowed the Baltic countries”
3. noun: a small amount of liquid food“a sup of ale”
4. noun: the act of swallowing“one swallow of the liquid was enough”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

SWALLOWING 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 S1 W4 A1 L1 L1 O1 W4 I1 N1 G2.

Anagrams of SWALLOWING (1)

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

Words Made From The Letters In SWALLOWING

370 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.

9 letter words (2)

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7 letter words (16)

6 letter words (49)

5 letter words (88)

4 letter words (118)

3 letter words (71)

2 letter words (23)

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