NIDAL is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. NIDAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept NIDAL?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful NIDAL is to know. It scores 6 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for NIDAL
No single letter turns NIDAL into another word.
How NIDAL scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in NIDAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| n | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 9,682.
What does NIDAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
medical
Relating to a nidus, especially a focus of infection in the body.
Nidal is a technical adjective built directly from the noun nidus, and it appears almost exclusively in medical writing. A nidal site is the specific spot where an infection, tumor, or other pathological process first takes hold and can spread from. Outside medicine, the word occasionally describes something relating to a nest, the older literal sense of nidus. Because of its narrow, specialized use, nidal is rare even in technical texts compared with nidus itself.
How NIDAL is used
Attributive adjective, used mainly in medical and pathology writing.
- The report described a nidal region of infection in the bone.
- Surgeons located the nidal tissue before starting the procedure.
- The tumor's nidal core was surrounded by healthy cells.
- Doctors traced the nidal source of the recurring fever.
- A small nidal abscess had formed near the joint.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of NIDAL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words ending in NIDAL
1 words end in NIDAL. Useful as a back hook: play NIDAL onto a word already on the board.
Shorter words from the letters in NIDAL
Common questions about NIDAL
- Is NIDAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts NIDAL, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is NIDAL worth?
- NIDAL is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does NIDAL mean?
- Relating to a nidus, especially a focus of infection in the body.
- What letters can be added to NIDAL?
- No single letter can be added to NIDAL to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of NIDAL:
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