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Is BRAKING a valid Scrabble word?

Yes, BRAKING is a valid word in US Scrabble and UK Scrabble, worth 14 points.

Base score before bonus squares; blank tiles score zero.

What does BRAKING mean?

Braking is a form of BRAKE.

  1. noun

    a restraint used to slow or stop a vehicle

  2. noun

    any of various ferns of the genus Pteris having pinnately compound leaves and including several popular houseplants

  3. noun

    large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan

  4. noun

    an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant

Definitions from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University.

Points

Scrabble
14
Words With Friends
17
Letters
7

B (3) + R (1) + A (1) + K (5) + I (1) + N (1) + G (2) = 14 points in Scrabble.

Dictionary status

  • Scrabble (US & Canada)Valid
  • Scrabble (UK & worldwide)Valid
  • Words With FriendsListed

Scrabble lists: NWL2023 (US & Canada) and CSW24 (UK & worldwide). WWF uses our ENABLE reference plus verified additions. “Listed” and “Not listed” describe that reference; check acceptance in the game. Sources reviewed 2026-10-03.

Hooks for BRAKING

BRAKING has no one-letter front or back hooks in US Scrabble. Adding a single letter to either end does not make another word in that list.

Front hooks0

None. Nothing can be added to the front.

Back hooks0

None. Nothing can be added to the end.

Anagrams of BRAKING

Words that use exactly the same letters.

Words you can make from BRAKING

The 60 highest-scoring words using these letters.

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