Is NICKEL a word?
NICKEL is a valid word in Scrabble and Words With Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words With Friends, has 6 letters, and can be rearranged into 1 other word, plus 37 shorter words built from the same letters.
Yes, NICKEL is a valid word.
What does nickel mean?
noun: a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite.
Definition from WordNet, Princeton University.
NICKEL: word details
- Pronunciation: NIH-kuhl (approx., 2 syllables)
- Length: 6 letters, a medium-length word. It is one of 22,342 6-letter words in our dictionary.
- Scrabble: worth 12 points on the tiles.
- Words With Friends: worth 15 points on the tiles.
- Games: recognised in the combined word list Unscrambly uses for Scrabble and Words With Friends. Acceptance in official tournament lists (TWL, SOWPODS) can vary.
Anagrams of nickel
Shorter words inside nickel
Words you can make from the letters of nickel.
Solve a whole rack, not just NICKEL
NICKEL is one word. If you are holding tiles rather than looking up a single entry, the Scrabble word finder ranks every play from your rack by points, and the Words With Friends solver scores the same letters with WWF values instead, which changes the order of the list.
Frequently asked questions
What does NICKEL mean?
NICKEL is a noun. It means: a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite.
Is NICKEL a valid word?
Yes, NICKEL is a valid word. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words With Friends.
Unscrambly validity is based on a large open English word list used across word games. Word acceptance varies by the exact tournament dictionary in use.