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Is living a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word living is a Scrabble US word. The word living is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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Is living a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word living is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

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Yes. The word living is a Words With Friends word. The word living is worth 14 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (1 found)

LIVING,

5-letter words (1 found)

VIGIL,

4-letter words (1 found)

LING,

3-letter words (7 found)

GIN,ING,LIG,LIN,NIL,VIG,VIN,

2-letter words (3 found)

GI,IN,LI,

You can make 13 words from living according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of living

living

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlɪvɪŋ/
  • Rhymes: -ɪvɪŋ

Verb

living

  1. present participle and gerund of live

Adjective

living (not comparable)

  1. Having life; alive.
  2. In use or existing.
  3. True to life.
  4. Of rock or stone, existing in its original state and place.
  5. Continually updated; not static
  6. Used as an intensifier.

Synonyms

  • (having life): extant, living, vital; see also Thesaurus:alive
  • (existing): extant; See also Thesaurus:existent
  • (representing life): lifey, lifelike, limned, lively, naturalistic
  • (intensifier): blasted, doggone, stinking; see also Thesaurus:damned

Antonyms

  • dead
  • nonliving

Hyponyms

  • long-living
  • longest-living

Derived terms

Related terms

  • live, life
  • alive

Translations

Noun

living (countable and uncountable, plural livings)

  1. (uncountable) The state of being alive.
  2. Financial means; a means of maintaining life; livelihood
  3. A style of life.
  4. (canon law) A position in a church (usually the Church of England) that has attached to it a source of income; an ecclesiastical benefice.

Derived terms

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French living or less plausibly an independent truncated borrowing from English living room.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlɪ.vɪŋ/
  • Hyphenation: li‧ving

Noun

living m (plural livings)

  1. (Belgium) A living room.
    Synonyms: huiskamer, woonkamer

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English living (room).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /li.viŋ/

Noun

living m (plural livings)

  1. living room

Further reading

  • “living”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, a clipping of English living room.

Noun

living m

  1. living room
    Synonym: soggiorno

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English living-room.

Noun

living n (plural livinguri)

  1. living room

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English living (room).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlibin/ [ˈli.β̞ĩn]
  • Rhymes: -ibin

Noun

living m (plural livings)

  1. (Argentina, Chile) living room
    Synonym: sala de estar

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

  • “living”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Source: wiktionary.org