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What does housing mean? Is housing a Scrabble word?

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Is housing a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word housing is a Scrabble US word. The word housing is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

H4O1U1S1I1N1G2

Is housing a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word housing is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

H4O1U1S1I1N1G2

Is housing a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word housing is a Words With Friends word. The word housing is worth 13 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

H3O1U2S1I1N2G3

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7-letter words (1 found)

HOUSING,

6-letter words (3 found)

HONGIS,HOSING,SHOGUN,

5-letter words (10 found)

HINGS,HOING,HONGI,HONGS,NIGHS,OHING,SHOGI,SOUGH,SUING,USING,

4-letter words (47 found)

GHIS,GINS,GIOS,GNUS,GONS,GOSH,GUNS,GUSH,HING,HINS,HISN,HOGS,HOIS,HONG,HONS,HUGS,HUIS,HUNG,HUNS,HUSO,INGO,INGS,IONS,NIGH,NISH,NOGS,NOSH,NOUS,NUGS,ONUS,SHIN,SHOG,SHUN,SIGH,SIGN,SING,SINH,SNIG,SNOG,SNUG,SONG,SUGH,SUGO,SUNG,SUNI,UGHS,UNIS,

3-letter words (48 found)

GHI,GIN,GIO,GIS,GNU,GON,GOS,GUN,GUS,HIN,HIS,HOG,HOI,HON,HOS,HUG,HUI,HUN,ING,INS,ION,IOS,ISH,ISO,NIS,NOG,NOH,NOS,NUG,NUS,OHS,OIS,ONS,OUS,SHO,SIG,SIN,SOG,SOH,SON,SOU,SUG,SUI,SUN,UGH,UGS,UNI,UNS,

2-letter words (22 found)

GI,GO,GU,HI,HO,IN,IO,IS,NO,NU,OH,OI,ON,OS,OU,SH,SI,SO,UG,UH,UN,US,

You can make 131 words from housing according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of housing

housing

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhaʊzɪŋ/, /ˈhaʊsɪŋ/
  • Rhymes: -aʊzɪŋ, -aʊsɪŋ

Etymology 1

From house +‎ -ing.

Verb

housing

  1. present participle and gerund of house

Etymology 2

From Middle English housynge, housinge, from housen (“to house, shelter; receive into one's house”), equivalent to house +‎ -ing. Cognate with Scots housing (“housing”); compare Dutch huizing, behuizing (“housing”), Low German husing, hüsing (“housing”), German Behausung (“housing”).

Noun

housing (countable and uncountable, plural housings)

  1. (uncountable) The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone.
  2. (uncountable) Residences, collectively.
    She lives in low-income housing.
  3. (countable) A mechanical component's container or covering.
    The gears were grinding against their housing.
  4. A cover or cloth for a horse's saddle, as an ornamental or military appendage; a saddlecloth; a horse cloth; in plural, trappings.
  5. An appendage to the harness or collar of a harness.
  6. (architecture) The space taken out of one solid to admit the insertion of part of another, such as the end of one timber in the side of another.
  7. A niche for a statue.
  8. (nautical) That portion of a mast or bowsprit which is beneath the deck or within the vessel.
  9. (nautical) A houseline.
Synonyms
  • (houses, collectively): accommodation, lodging
  • (mechanical component's container): case, casing, cover, covering, lid
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  • house

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Noun

housing m (plural housings)

  1. (computing) colocation; A service allowing multiple customers to locate network, server, and storage gear, connect them to a variety of telecommunications and network service providers, with a minimum of cost and complexity

Source: wiktionary.org