offing

offing is a 6-letter English word with 3 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: That part of the sea at a good distance from the shore, or where there is deep water and no need of a pilot; also, distance from the shore; as, the ship had ten miles offing; we saw a ship in the offing. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 15 · 3 senses

Definitions

1. noun. That part of the sea at a good distance from the shore, or where there is deep water and no need of a pilot; also, distance from the shore; as, the ship had ten miles offing; we saw a ship in the offing.
2. noun. the part of the sea that can be seen from the shore and is beyond the anchoring area

   "there was a ship in the offing"

3. noun. the near or foreseeable future

   "there was a wedding in the offing"

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in offing:

goniff

Common word forms

off, offings

Words from these letters

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