coming C₃O₁M₃I₁N₁G₂

COMING is both a noun for an arrival and a form of the verb “come.” It can describe something on its way, especially a near-future event, or signal that a person is approaching. The word is familiar in everyday English, yet its six letters have a neat word-game twist: rearrange them and you get GNOMIC, its sole anagram.

COMING at a glance

• COMING has six letters and scores 11 points before any board bonuses.
• Its letters sort to CGIMNO, which also spells GNOMIC.
• Sixteen one-letter neighbours include CODING and COPING.
• The word shares its -ing ending with twelve listed rhymes, including GOING and BEING.

What does COMING mean?

COMING means an arrival, as in “the coming of spring,” or the act of reaching a place. It also describes something approaching in time: “the coming week” points to the near future.

As a verb form, COMING can tell someone that a person is on the way: “I’m coming.” It also appears as an adjective for something newly fashionable or moving toward success, as in “a coming artist.”

Those uses all share the idea of movement toward a place, moment, or achievement. In a word game, though, you only need the spelling: COMING uses C, O, M, I, N, and G, with no repeated tile.

COMING meaning, score and letter changes

COMING is worth 11 Scrabble points on an open board: C is worth 3, O 1, M 3, I 1, N 1, and G 2. The two M-and-C tiles supply six of those points, so a bonus square under either letter matters more than one under a vowel.

Change one letter and you can make CODING or COPING, both familiar options among COMING’s sixteen neighbours. Other matches, such as COXING and COZING, are less everyday; check your game’s word list before relying on an unfamiliar form.

For a rearrangement, GNOMIC is the single anagram. It means relating to a maxim or concise saying, so it is less common in conversation than COMING. The -ing ending also connects COMING with rhymes such as DOING and GETTING.