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Words Ending in ING

There are 12,564 English words that end in ING, spanning from AAHING to ZOOMING. The Scrabble® high-scorer of this list is HYPOPHYSECTOMIZING at 48 points; the longest is OVERINTELLECTUALIZING (21 letters). Handy for crosswords, Scrabble endgames and Wordle guesses. The list is ordered alphabetically; use the filter box below to jump to a specific starting letter.

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Showing the first 600 of 12,564 words. Use the pattern search to narrow further, or filter with the unscrambler.

Top 10 highest-scoring words

Scored on letters only (no board bonuses). WWF uses different tile values from Scrabble — J, Q, X and Z are all 10 points in WWF.

#WordScrabbleWWF
1hypophysectomizing4850
2overcommercializing4048
3anthropomorphizing4044
4subjectivizing3846
5psychoanalyzing3841
6photosynthesizing3839
7ventriloquizing3743
8hyperimmunizing3742
9photooxidizing3739
10overintellectualizing3645

Strategy for this list

The -ING suffix is the most common word ending in English. Every present participle and gerund uses it, which makes -ING words the workhorses of both Scrabble and Wordle. For Scrabble, the -ING triple is a common bingo shape: ENDING, RUNNING, SEATING, LOATHING. The -ING ending hooks to -INGS for the extra S bonus. For Wordle, -ING appears in fewer answers than you'd expect (past-tense -ED is far more common), but is one of the most common patterns in wrong-guess feedback — if you know two consonants and a vowel, testing -ING vs -ONE vs -ATE narrows the answer set fastest.

FAQs

How many words end in ING?

12,564 valid English words end with ING.

Best Scrabble word ending in ING?

HYPOPHYSECTOMIZING at 48 pts.

Longest word ending in ING?

OVERINTELLECTUALIZING (21 letters).

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