When we consider the 2000 most commonly played bingos in Scrabble under the OWL2 word list, we find that the THIRD most common ending letters for these bingos are the letters -ING. In another article we describe why this is important.
To become a better Scrabble player, you need to increase the number of bingo words that you are capable of playing. An efficient way to do this is to first learn the most commonly played bingos with the most commonly used endings.
The most commonly played bingos that end in -ING are:
1. avowing
2. vetoing
3. autoing
4. avoiding
5. ideating
6. revoting
7. rodeoing
8. deairing
9. meouing
10. radioing
11. quoting
12. iodating
13. eloining
14. veluring
15. eviting
16. adoring
17. vetting
18. trending
19. retaxing
20. dratting
21. doating
22. eluting
23. feeding
24. dartling
25. beating
26. anearing
27. yirring
28. uttering
29. overing
30. miaouing
31. droving
32. devoting
33. cooeeing
34. awaiting
35. aerating
36. zeroing
37. venting
38. vatting
39. untieing
40. tootling
41. toiting
42. toadying
43. trueing
44. taxiing
45. rootling
46. raveling
47. petting
48. louring
49. evading
50. aboding
As usual, the list is in playrank order starting with the most often played word AVOWING. Also, this list only applies to games played under the OWL2 word list.
Notice the prevalence of vowels in the bingos, making these words an excellent way to dump vowels. In particular, COOEEING comes from the word COOEE which is prominent on the list of vowel dumps.
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