NEPHELINE is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. NEPHELINE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 17 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept NEPHELINE?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful NEPHELINE is to know. It scores 14 from 9 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for NEPHELINE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
nephelinesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How NEPHELINE scores
Face value of the 9 tiles in NEPHELINE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| n | 2 | 6 |
| e | 3 | 12 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so NEPHELINE has to be built on the board across turns.
What does NEPHELINE mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A pale rock-forming mineral, a sodium and potassium aluminium silicate found in igneous rocks.
Nepheline is colourless, whitish or greenish and often forms hexagonal crystals. It occurs in rocks poor in silica, such as syenites. Industry uses it in glass and ceramics, where it supplies alumina and alkalis.
How NEPHELINE is used
Used in geology and in the glass and ceramics trades; nephelite is an older spelling.
- The thin section showed grains of nepheline beside feldspar.
- Nepheline syenite is a common ingredient in glass batches.
- A geologist identified the whitish crystals as nepheline.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of NEPHELINE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with NEPHELINE
1 longer words begin with NEPHELINE.
Shorter words from the letters in NEPHELINE
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Common questions about NEPHELINE
- Is NEPHELINE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts NEPHELINE, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is NEPHELINE worth?
- NEPHELINE is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does NEPHELINE mean?
- A pale rock-forming mineral, a sodium and potassium aluminium silicate found in igneous rocks.
- What letters can be added to NEPHELINE?
- NEPHELINE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 9 letters of NEPHELINE:
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