Failing is valid Scrabble Word

Is failing a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is failing valid Words with Friends?
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7 letters word
11 points in Scrabble
14 points in WWF

Definitions for FAILING in dictionary:

VERB:

be unsuccessful in (an examination or interview)
(of a person or a commodity) be unable to meet the standards set by (a test of quality or eligibility)
judge (a candidate in an examination or test) not to have passed
neglect to do something
behave in a way contrary to expectations by not doing something
used to express a strong belief that something must be the case
used to indicate that something invariably happens
desert or let down (someone)
cease to work properly; break down
become weaker or of poorer quality

(of rain or a crop or supply) be insufficient when needed or expected
(of a business or a person) cease trading because of lack of funds
be unsuccessful in achieving one's goal

PREPOSITION:

in the absence of

NOUN:

a weakness
a mark which is not high enough to pass an examination or test
a mistake, failure, or instance of poor performance
weak point
A failing short; a becoming deficient; failure; deficiency; imperfection; weakness; lapse; fault; infirmity; as, a mental failing.
The act of becoming insolvent of bankrupt.
a flaw or weak point
failure to reach a minimum required performance

ADJECTIVE:

in a state of failure
below acceptable in performance

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to be unsuccessful in an attempt
a minor fault or weakness

Words related to FAILING

fail7 failed10 failingly16 failings12 fails8

Words that contain FAILING

failings12 failingly16 unfailing13 unfailingly18 unfailingness17 unfailingnesses19

How to use FAILING in a sentence

In 1853 Brother Pennock was stationed at Asbury, Milwaukee, but, his health again failing, he decided to go to Minnesota at the end of the year.
But, on account of failing health, he was compelled to return in 1872.
If you feel that there is anything amiss with you, or that your strength is failing, consult Mr.
But the error of these consists, not in realizing good purposes too slowly and patiently, but in failing effectually to purpose good at all.
When customers were failing, somehow their debts to me were paid, although they failed to pay others.
Failing to stir a smile, poor fellow, he made no secret of his perturbation.
With all that was left of his failing strength he strove to cling to that dim light which he knew for his own individuality.
Whenever I looked towards the past, I saw some duty neglected, or some failing indulged.
Many of them have set out from Ireland, intending to go to America, but, their little means failing them, have been obliged to remain in Liverpool.
She knew then that he had seen her when she had caught sight of him, and failing to meet her as he had expected, had guessed she had hidden from him.

Failing this, the soldiers will man the decks with their rifles ready.
The light was failing, and a lamp had been brought into the room.
Relic of the early springtime and the melting snows, it had been caught and imprisoned here after the gradually failing stream had trickled itself into nothingness.
Take up our quarrel with the foe! To you, from failing hands, we throw The torch.
Then Vanbrugh, still failing, let the Haymarket to Mr.
Failing in this attempt, in 1723, they renewed the attack in 1731 by promoting two bills, one called a Bill of Residence, the other a Bill of Division.
I can keep it from failing so far as part of it is concerned, the part that I am.
And if we assume, as he does, a Semitic original, Babylonia is no doubt its probable birthplace, or, failing that, Palestine.
As a law student he had aimed a severe blow at justice, and failing as an attorney, he had served his country a good turn.
Attempts had been made to weigh anchor the preceding day, but the wind failing, the force of the currents prevented it.
Failing of any response, he next tried a side door and finally the extreme rear.
In being one who might have been one succeeding in living she was one who had not been failing in living.
In being one who had not been failing in living she was one expecting and getting what she expected to be getting by asking.
But whatever the part may be that is played by failing it is evident that it does not operate to cause their early loss to the school in nearly all of these instances.
As the number of failures per pupil increase for the failing graduates, the time extension is not commensurate with the number of failures.
How nobly free you seem to be of this common failing of mankind.
And this last, failing to find a mark, threw its owner off his balance.

Similar words containing FAIL without suffix ing

fail7 fails8 failed10 faille9 failles10 failure10 jeofail17 failings12 failover14 failures11 jeofails18 failingly16 failovers15 unfailing13 unfailingly18 unfailingness17 unfailingnesses19

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