NIDGET is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. NIDGET is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept NIDGET?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful NIDGET is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for NIDGET
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
nidgetsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How NIDGET scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in NIDGET, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| n | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 25,550.
What does NIDGET mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaicdialect
A country word for someone too timid or slow-witted to be much use, once thrown at a shirker.
Nidget survives mainly in older regional glossaries and dictionaries of dialect, where it names someone regarded as foolish, timid or lacking in sense. Some of the same sources also record a completely different, unrelated nidget naming a triangular hoe once used to clear weeds between rows of hops or beans, showing how one spelling came to cover two separate rural traditions. The word for a fool has faded from ordinary speech and now appears mostly in historical dialect studies rather than in current conversation.
How NIDGET is used
Archaic dialect term, found in older regional glossaries rather than in modern everyday speech.
- The old glossary defined a nidget as a timid fool.
- Villagers in the story mocked the boy as a nidget for running from a shadow.
- The dialect dictionary listed nidget alongside other old words for a coward.
- She read that nidget once meant someone thought foolish or weak-willed.
- The term nidget rarely appears outside collections of regional dialect words.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of NIDGET and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of NIDGET
The 6 tiles of NIDGET in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with NIDGET
3 longer words begin with NIDGET.
Shorter words from the letters in NIDGET
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Common questions about NIDGET
- Is NIDGET valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts NIDGET, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is NIDGET worth?
- NIDGET is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does NIDGET mean?
- A country word for someone too timid or slow-witted to be much use, once thrown at a shirker.
- What letters can be added to NIDGET?
- NIDGET takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of NIDGET:
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