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Is fishing a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word fishing is a Scrabble US word. The word fishing is worth 14 points in Scrabble:

F4I1S1H4I1N1G2

Is fishing a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word fishing is a Scrabble UK word and has 14 points:

F4I1S1H4I1N1G2

Is fishing a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word fishing is a Words With Friends word. The word fishing is worth 15 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

F4I1S1H3I1N2G3

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7-letter words (1 found)

FISHING,

6-letter words (1 found)

FINISH,

5-letter words (3 found)

FINIS,HINGS,NIGHS,

4-letter words (20 found)

FIGS,FINI,FINS,FISH,GHIS,GIFS,GINS,HING,HINS,HISN,INGS,NIGH,NISH,NISI,SHIN,SIGH,SIGN,SING,SINH,SNIG,

3-letter words (16 found)

FIG,FIN,GHI,GIF,GIN,GIS,HIN,HIS,IFS,ING,INS,ISH,NIS,SIF,SIG,SIN,

2-letter words (7 found)

GI,HI,IF,IN,IS,SH,SI,

You can make 48 words from fishing according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of fishing

fishing

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɪʃɪŋ/
  • Rhymes: -ɪʃɪŋ
  • Homophone: phishing

Etymology 1

From Middle English fischynge, equivalent to fish +‎ -ing.

Noun

fishing (countable and uncountable, plural fishings)

  1. (uncountable) The act of catching fish.
    We had a good day's fishing at the weekend.
  2. (uncountable, informal) The act of catching other forms of seafood, separately or together with fish.
  4. (uncountable) Commercial fishing: the business or industry of catching fish and other seafood for sale.
    This is good news for the fishing industry.
  5. (countable) A fishery, a place for catching fish.
Synonyms
  • (act): piscatology, piscation, piscicide (pejorative), piscicapture, the gentle craft
  • (business): fishery, the fish industry, the seafood industry
  • (sport): sportfishing
  • (place): See fishery
Derived terms
Translations

See also

  • (adj): See fishing
  • (adv): halieutically
  • (science): halieutics, piscatology
  • (writing on fishing): halieutics, piscatory

See also

  • piscatorious, piscatory, piscatorial, piscatorical, piscatorian; piscatorially

Etymology 2

From fish +‎ -ing.

Verb

fishing

  1. present participle and gerund of fish
Derived terms

Source: wiktionary.org