Is Dorming a Scrabble Word?

Yes, dorm is in the scrabble dictionary.

Is Dorming a word?

“I grew up in New York,” he wrote to me in an email, “and can tell you that dorm (as a verb) and dorming are both common usages, at least in NYC, Long Island, and the nearby NJ and upstate counties." Another editor pointed out that this usage hearkens back to the French: dormir, a verb, meaning “to sleep.”

What is Dorming?

A dorm — short for dormitory — is a place where college or university students live. ... If you go away to college, you'll probably live in a dormitory — or dorm. It's much more common for students to say dorm because it's shorter and slangier. A dorm is where students live, often with roommates.

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