ANIGH is valid in Collins, not in North America — 9 points
It depends on the list you play by. ANIGH is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 9 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept ANIGH?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ANIGH is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ANIGH
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
anightChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How ANIGH scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ANIGH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 25,819.
What stands out about ANIGH
- The same 5 tiles also spell 2 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does ANIGH mean in Scrabble?
adverb
archaic
Within a short distance of something, built from the prefix a- on the older word nigh.
Anigh once worked exactly like near or nigh in ordinary speech, placed before a noun or standing alone at the end of a clause. Writers kept it alive well into the nineteenth century for its slightly poetic, old-fashioned sound, and it survives today mainly in deliberately archaic prose and in quotations from older texts. Modern English has otherwise let the word drop in favour of near.
How ANIGH is used
Archaic; encountered in older literature and consciously old-fashioned writing rather than current speech.
- No house stood anigh for miles around.
- She would not venture anigh the ruined tower after dark.
- The old ballad tells of danger anigh the traveller.
- Nothing came anigh the camp that whole quiet night.
- He wrote anigh where a modern author would simply write near.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ANIGH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ANIGH
The 5 tiles of ANIGH in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with ANIGH
1 longer words begin with ANIGH.
Shorter words from the letters in ANIGH
Common questions about ANIGH
- Is ANIGH valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and ANIGH is not in it.
- How many points is ANIGH worth?
- ANIGH is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ANIGH mean?
- Within a short distance of something, built from the prefix a- on the older word nigh.
- What letters can be added to ANIGH?
- ANIGH takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ANIGH:
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