warning W₄A₁R₁N₁I₁N₁G₂

WARNING names an instance of warning someone, a message meant to warn, or a notice used to signal danger. It is an everyday word, and its letter mix gives it a clear score breakdown: the W carries most of the tile value, while the repeated N adds a useful detail when you count the letters. There are no anagrams, but one-letter changes produce several close neighbors.

WARNING at a glance

• WARNING has 7 letters and scores 11 points from its tile values.
• Its definition covers both the act of warning and a spoken or written caution.
• No anagrams use all the letters in WARNING.
• The word has 13 one-letter neighbors, including earning, warming, and warring.
• Its 12 listed rhymes share the ending sound in words such as being, going, and thing.

WARNING meaning and Scrabble score

WARNING means an instance of warning someone, or a spoken or written message intended to warn. It also describes a notice used to signal danger, so the meaning covers both the act and the message.

The Scrabble total is 11 points before any board-square effects. W is worth 4, G is worth 2, and A, R, I, and both Ns are worth 1 point each. The W supplies more than a third of the base score, making it the key tile to count.

WARNING is accepted in Collins, NWL2023, and ENABLE. That gives you a match across these word lists, but check your game's list if it uses a different lexicon.

The repeated N is easy to overlook when checking the rack: WARNING uses seven tiles, with N appearing twice.

WARNING meaning, rhymes and one-letter neighbors

WARNING has no anagrams, so rearranging its seven letters does not make another word in the anagram list. For a word-game change, try replacing just one letter instead: earning, warming, warring, warping, warding, and darning are among its neighbors.

Those examples keep six letters in place and change one, making them useful to compare when you are searching a rack or checking a spelling pattern. The full set contains 13 neighbors; less familiar options include wanning, yarning, and waining.

The 12 listed rhymes share WARNING’s final -ing sound. Being, going, thing, doing, and having are among the matches, alongside longer choices such as something and everything.

A limitation matters for anagram searches: rhymes and one-letter neighbors are not rearrangements of WARNING. If you need the same seven tiles in a new order, the anagram count is zero.