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Yes. The word starling is a Scrabble US word. The word starling is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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8-letter words (3 found)

RATLINGS,SLARTING,STARLING,

7-letter words (12 found)

ANGLIST,GASTRIN,GRATINS,LASTING,RATINGS,RATLING,RATLINS,SALTING,SLATING,STALING,STARING,TARINGS,

6-letter words (44 found)

AGRINS,ALGINS,ALIGNS,ARGILS,ARLING,ARSING,GAINST,GASLIT,GIANTS,GLAIRS,GLINTS,GNARLS,GRAILS,GRAINS,GRANTS,GRATIN,GRATIS,INSTAL,INSTAR,LASING,LIANGS,LIGANS,LINGAS,NGATIS,RANGIS,RASING,RATING,RATLIN,SANTIR,SARING,SATING,SIGNAL,SLAIRG,STRAIN,STRANG,STRIGA,STRING,TANGIS,TARING,TASING,TRAILS,TRAINS,TRIALS,TRINAL,

5-letter words (114 found)

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4-letter words (135 found)

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3-letter words (69 found)

AGS,AIL,AIN,AIR,AIS,AIT,ALS,ALT,ANI,ANS,ANT,ARS,ART,ATS,GAL,GAN,GAR,GAS,GAT,GIN,GIS,GIT,ING,INS,ITA,ITS,LAG,LAR,LAS,LAT,LIG,LIN,LIS,LIT,NAG,NAS,NAT,NIL,NIS,NIT,RAG,RAI,RAN,RAS,RAT,RIA,RIG,RIN,RIT,SAG,SAI,SAL,SAN,SAR,SAT,SIG,SIN,SIR,SIT,SRI,TAG,TAI,TAN,TAR,TAS,TIG,TIL,TIN,TIS,

2-letter words (18 found)

AG,AI,AL,AN,AR,AS,AT,GI,IN,IS,IT,LA,LI,NA,SI,ST,TA,TI,

You can make 395 words from starling according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of starling

starling

Etymology

From Middle English starling, sterling, sterlinge, from Old English stærling, from stær (“starling”) + -ling (diminutive suffix). Cognate with Middle Dutch sterlinck (“starling”).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: stär′lĭng
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈstɑɹ.lɪŋ/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈstɑː.lɪŋ/
  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)lɪŋ

Noun

starling (plural starlings)

  1. A family, Sturnidae, of passerine birds.
    2. The common starling, Sturnus vulgaris, which has dark, iridescent plumage.
      Synonyms: European starling, (archaic, dialectal) stare
  2. (hydraulic engineering) An inclosure like a coffer-dam, formed of piles driven closely together, before any work or structure as a protection against the wash of the waves, commonly used to protects the piers of a bridge.
  3. One of the piles used in forming such a breakwater.
  4. A fish, rock trout (Hexagrammos spp.), of the North Pacific, especially, Hexagrammos decagrammus, found in US waters.
    Synonyms: boregat, bodieron

Derived terms

  • common starling, European starling (Sturnus vulgaris)
  • New Zealand starling
  • pied starling
  • rose-colored starling, rose-coloured starling
  • rosy starling (Pastor roseus)
  • spotless starling (Sturnus unicolor)

Translations

References

  • “starling”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • “starling”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC, page 5908, column 1.
  • William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “starling”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volume V, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 5908, column 1.
  • “starling”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  • Starling (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • starling on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Sturnidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
  • Hexagrammos on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
  • Category:Sturnidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
  • Hexagrammos on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

  • ratlings

Source: wiktionary.org