fishing: meaning and words from its letters
7 letters · 14 letter points · starts with F · ends with G
Meaning of fishing
noun
- uncountable
The act of catching fish.
Example: We had a good day's fishing at the weekend.
- informal, uncountable
The act of catching other forms of seafood, separately or together with fish.
- uncountable
Commercial fishing: the business or industry of catching fish and other seafood for sale.
Example: This is good news for the fishing industry.
- countable
A fishery, a place for catching fish.
Listed forms: fishings.
Source: Wiktionary — fishing.
verb
- form-of, gerund, participle, present
present participle and gerund of fish
Base or related entry: fish.
Source: Wiktionary — fishing.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for fishing.
noun
the act of someone who fishes as a diversion
- sportfishing
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is fishing in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
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| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of fishing
F(4) + I(1) + S(1) + H(4) + I(1) + N(1) + G(2) = 14 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of fishing
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from fishing
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