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Is making a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word making is a Scrabble US word. The word making is worth 13 points in Scrabble:

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Is making a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word making is a Scrabble UK word and has 13 points:

M3A1K5I1N1G2

Is making a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word making is a Words With Friends word. The word making is worth 16 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (1 found)

MAKING,

5-letter words (4 found)

AKING,GAMIN,KAING,KIANG,

4-letter words (24 found)

AGIN,AKIN,AMIN,GAIN,GINK,IKAN,KAIM,KAIN,KAMI,KANG,KINA,KING,KNAG,MAGI,MAIK,MAIN,MAKI,MANG,MANI,MINA,MING,MINK,NAIK,NGAI,

3-letter words (21 found)

AIM,AIN,AMI,ANI,GAK,GAM,GAN,GIN,ING,INK,KAI,KAM,KIN,MAG,MAK,MAN,MIG,MNA,NAG,NAM,NIM,

2-letter words (11 found)

AG,AI,AM,AN,GI,IN,KA,KI,MA,MI,NA,

You can make 61 words from making according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of making

making

Alternative forms

  • makeing (obsolete)
  • makin, makkin (Wearside, Durham, dialectal)
  • makin', mekin (pronunciation spelling)
  • myekin (Geordie, dialectal)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmeɪkɪŋ/
  • Rhymes: -eɪkɪŋ
  • Hyphenation: mak‧ing

Etymology 1

From Middle English making, from Old English macung (“making”), equivalent to make +‎ -ing. Cognate with Dutch making (“making”), Old High German machunga.

Noun

making (countable and uncountable, plural makings)

  1. The act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction.
  2. Process of growth or development.
Derived terms
Related terms
  • maker
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Etymology 2

From make +‎ -ing.

Verb

making

  1. present participle and gerund of make
    • 1981, Earliest Usenet use via Google Groups - fa.human-nets, 10 May 1981 09:16-EDT, Robert Elton Maas
      Soon (30 years?) we'll be making complete DNA and life in reverse, growing food that only reversed creatures cn[sic] eat.

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