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Is childing a Scrabble word?

Yes, childing is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 15 points in Scrabble.

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Definition

noun (English)

1. (archaic) gerund of child: the act or process of childbearing or childbirth.Examples: "This Conſtantia was fiftie yeares of age before ſhe was conceiued with him; whom the emperor Henrie the ſixth to auoide all doubt and ſurmiſe that of hir conception and childing might be thought, and to the perill of the empire inſue: cauſed his regall tent to be pitched abrode in place where euery man might reſort."; "When Zalzer is grown up, and leaves the nest, the Simorg gives him one of her feathers, telling him, whenever he is in great distress, to burn it, and she will immediately come to his assistance. Zalzer marries Rodahver, who is likely to die in childing; he then burns the feather, and the Simorg appears and orders the Cæsarean operation to be performed."; "[H]e had grown up there and there wedded a wife; but that when she died in childing with her first bairn, and the bairn had not lived, he loathed the place, and came back again into the Dale."Synonyms: delivery, parturitionarchaicform-ofgerunduncountable

adj (English)

1. (archaic)Examples: "With fire and sword the country round / Was wasted far and wide, / And many a childing mother then, / And new-born baby died; / But things like that, you know, must be / At every famous victory."Synonyms: fecund, fruitful, in delivery, in labour, postnatal, postpartal, postpartum, post-parturalAntonyms: barren, infertilearchaicnot-comparable

2. (archaic)Examples: "[page 323] Bellis minor hortenſis prolifera. Double double Daiſies or childing Daiſies. […] The chiefeſt variety conſiſteth in this, that is beareth many ſmall double flowers, ſtanding vpon very ſhort ſtalkes round about the middle flower, […] [page 324] The French call them Paſquettes, and Marguerites, and the Fruitfull ſort, or thoſe that beare ſmall flowers about the middle one, Margueritons: our Engliſh women call them Iacke an Apes on horſe-backe, as they doe Marigolds before recited, or childing Daiſies: but the Phyſitians and Apothecaries doe in generall call them, eſpecially the ſingle or Field kindes, Conſolida minor."archaicnot-comparable

3. (obsolete, figuratively) Fruitful; productive.Examples: "The Spring, the Sommer, / The childing Autumne, angry Winter change / Their wonted Liueries; and the mazed worlde, / By their increaſe, now knowes not which is which; […]"figurativelynot-comparableobsolete

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "childing"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "childing"?

Scrabble
15 points
C3
H4
I1
L1
D2
I1
N1
G2
Words With Friends
18 points
C4
H3
I1
L2
D2
I1
N2
G3

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