ING is valid in Collins, not in North America — 4 points
It depends on the list you play by. ING 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 4 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept ING?
| 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: 52 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ING is to know. It scores 4 from 3 tiles, takes 16 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ING
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ING scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in ING, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 998.
What does ING mean in Scrabble?
noun
dialectBritish
A meadow, especially one beside a river.
Ing is Norse and survives mostly in field names and place names across the north of England, where a farmer will still call a low wet field the ing. Land of that kind floods on purpose, which is why it was kept for hay and grazing rather than ploughed.
How ING is used
Countable: an ing, two ings. Chiefly northern English and in place names.
- The cattle go down to the ing in May.
- An ing floods every winter and is the better for it.
- Half the field names on that farm end in ing.
- The ing was cut for hay and never for anything else.
- A wet ing grows more grass than a dry hill.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ING and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ING
The 3 tiles of ING in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with ING
Showing 24 of 162 words that begin with ING.
Words ending in ING
Showing 24 of 19345 words that end in ING. Useful as a back hook: play ING onto a word already on the board.
Words with ING inside
Showing 24 of 6814 words that contain ING somewhere in the middle. Words that start with ING are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ING
Common questions about ING
- Is ING valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and ING is not in it.
- How many points is ING worth?
- ING is worth 4 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ING mean?
- A meadow, especially one beside a river.
- What letters can be added to ING?
- ING takes 16 hooks: 14 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of ING:
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