GING is valid in Collins, not in North America — 6 points
It depends on the list you play by. GING is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 6 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept GING?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 36 / 100
Our own measure of how useful GING is to know. It scores 6 from 4 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for GING
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How GING scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in GING, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| g | 2 | 3 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 24,205.
What does GING mean in Scrabble?
noun
dialectBritish
A child's catapult, or slingshot, made for shooting small stones.
Ging is a dialect word from northern England used mainly by children for a homemade catapult put together from a forked stick and a strip of elastic. It is also an older word for a group of followers, close in sense to gang, but the catapult sense is the one that still turns up in dialect glossaries and word-game lists.
How GING is used
Dialect term, mostly northern English; rarely used outside dialect writing.
- The boys built a ging from a forked branch and an old bicycle tube.
- He fired a stone from his ging at the tin cans on the wall.
- Grandad still calls a catapult a ging, the word he used as a child.
- The dialect dictionary lists ging alongside other old words for a slingshot.
- Losing his ging in the hedge upset him more than losing the game.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of GING and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with GING
Showing 24 of 65 words that begin with GING.
Words ending in GING
Showing 24 of 668 words that end in GING. Useful as a back hook: play GING onto a word already on the board.
Words with GING inside
Showing 24 of 228 words that contain GING somewhere in the middle. Words that start with GING are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in GING
Common questions about GING
- Is GING valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and GING is not in it.
- How many points is GING worth?
- GING is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 9 points in Words with Friends.
- What does GING mean?
- A child's catapult, or slingshot, made for shooting small stones.
- What letters can be added to GING?
- GING takes 3 hooks: 1 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of GING:
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