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Padding

/ˈpædɪŋ/

Scrabble:12 ptsWWF:15 pts7 letters
Definition of Padding

verb

  1. To stuff.
  2. To furnish with a pad or padding.
  3. To increase the size of, especially by adding undesirable filler.

    "May 21, 2008, Austin American-Statesman"

  4. To imbue uniformly with a mordant.

    "to pad cloth"

  5. To deliberately play the ball with the leg pad instead of the bat.

verb

  1. To travel along (a road, path etc.).
  2. To travel on foot.
  3. To wear a path by walking.
  4. To walk softly, quietly or steadily, especially without shoes.
  5. To practise highway robbery.

noun

  1. Soft filling material used in cushions etc.
  2. Extra characters such as spaces added to a record to fill it out to a fixed length.
  3. Extraneous text added to a message for the purpose of concealing its beginning, ending, or length.
  4. Anything of little value used to fill up space.

    "That magazine is mostly advertisements; the rest is padding."

Anagrams of Padding

No exact anagrams found for "padding". This word has a unique letter combination.

+1 Letter Anagrams

Words formed by adding one letter to "padding" and rearranging:

+lpaddling
+spaddings
Related Word Patterns
PA...Words starting with "pa"...NGWords ending with "ng"All 7-letter wordsUnscramble "padding"
Letter Values
p3
a1
d2
d2
i1
n1
g2

Total: 12 Scrabble points

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Rhymes With Padding
aahingabandoningabashingabasingabatingabbreviatingabdicatingabducingabductingabeggingabettingabhorring
Related 7-Letter Words
pablumspabularpabulumpachisipachucopaciestpacificpackagepackerspacketspackingpackmanpackmenpackwaxpaction

Word Validity & Sources

SOWPODS (International Scrabble): Valid
TWL (US/Canada Scrabble): Valid
Words With Friends: Valid
Last verified: December 2024

Dictionary data sourced from SOWPODS (178,691 words), combining TWL (Tournament Word List) and the Collins Scrabble Words dictionary. Definitions from Free Dictionary API and Wordnik.

About the Word "Padding"

Padding is a 7-letter word that scores 12 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words With Friends.

Using "Padding" in Word Games

When playing Scrabble or Words With Friends, "padding" is a medium-scoring word.