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Is netting a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word netting is a Scrabble US word. The word netting is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

N1E1T1T1I1N1G2

Is netting a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word netting is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

N1E1T1T1I1N1G2

Is netting a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word netting is a Words With Friends word. The word netting is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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7-letter words (2 found)

NETTING,TENTING,

6-letter words (1 found)

INTENT,

5-letter words (2 found)

ETTIN,TINGE,

4-letter words (15 found)

GEIT,GENT,GIEN,GINN,GITE,NETT,NINE,NITE,TEIN,TENT,TIGE,TINE,TING,TINT,TITE,

3-letter words (19 found)

ENG,GEN,GET,GIE,GIN,GIT,ING,INN,NEG,NET,NIE,NIT,TEG,TEN,TET,TIE,TIG,TIN,TIT,

2-letter words (8 found)

EN,ET,GI,IN,IT,NE,TE,TI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

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

Definitions and meaning of netting

netting

Etymology 1

From net +‎ -ing.

Noun

netting (countable and uncountable, plural nettings)

  1. Something that acts as, or looks like, a net.
    • January 1965, U.S. Army Air Defense Digest (U.S. Army Air Defense School, Fort Bliss, Texas), page 44 (part of chapter 3, Army Air Defense Control Systems) (PDF: cover, contents, chapter 1, chapter 2, chapter 3):
      The term "radar netting" (fig 43) describes the process by which track data derived from several additional or remote radars are gathered at a single center to produce an integrated set of meaningful target information which can be distributed to all AD elements concerned. [...] Radar netting can provide concurrent coverage of a selected area by more than one radar.
Synonyms
  • mesh
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Middle English netting (“urine”). Further etymology unclear. Perhaps borrowed from Middle Low German nattinge (“wetness”), or derived from Middle Low German nette (“wetness, urine”), netten (“to wet, urinate”). Alternatively, perhaps from an unrecorded Old English *nettan (“to wet”), from Proto-West Germanic *nattjan (“to wet”), related to Middle Low German netten (“to wet, urinate”), Dutch netten (“to wet”), German nässen (“to wet”).

Noun

netting (uncountable)

  1. (UK, dialect, obsolete) Urine.

Etymology 3

From net +‎ -ing.

Verb

netting

  1. present participle and gerund of net

Anagrams

  • tenting, tingent

Source: wiktionary.org