NIENTE is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. NIENTE 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 NIENTE?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful NIENTE is to know. It scores 6 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 8.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for NIENTE
No single letter turns NIENTE into another word.
How NIENTE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in NIENTE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| n | 2 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 22,298.
What does NIENTE mean in Scrabble?
adverb
music
A musical direction meaning to fade the sound away to nothing.
Niente is Italian for nothing, and composers borrowed the word to mark a passage that should die away until no sound at all remains, often written together with a diminuendo hairpin that narrows to a point at the word itself. A performer reading niente knows the note or chord should not simply grow quiet but disappear completely, as though the music dissolves rather than stops. The mark appears at the end of phrases, whole pieces or individual notes where the composer wants silence to arrive gradually instead of with a cut-off. Because it borrows straight from Italian, niente sits alongside other performance directions such as forte and pianissimo that keep their original spelling in English scores.
How NIENTE is used
Technical term used only in written music, printed above or below the staff at the point where the sound should vanish.
- The final chord is marked niente, so it must fade to complete silence.
- The conductor asked the strings to take the diminuendo all the way to niente.
- A composer writing niente expects the note to vanish, not merely soften.
- The score ends with a long note marked niente under a fading hairpin.
- Young players often stop too abruptly instead of reaching niente gradually.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of NIENTE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in NIENTE
Common questions about NIENTE
- Is NIENTE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts NIENTE, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is NIENTE worth?
- NIENTE is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does NIENTE mean?
- A musical direction meaning to fade the sound away to nothing.
- What letters can be added to NIENTE?
- No single letter can be added to NIENTE to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of NIENTE:
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