NIFE is valid in Collins, not in North America — 7 points
It depends on the list you play by. NIFE 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 7 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept NIFE?
| 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: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful NIFE is to know. It scores 7 from 4 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 7.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for NIFE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How NIFE scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in NIFE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| n | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| f | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 3,026.
What stands out about NIFE
- The same 4 tiles also spell 4 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 NIFE mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A historical term for the hypothesized nickel-iron composition of the Earths core.
Geologists once used nife as shorthand while debating what materials lay beneath the mantle before modern seismic evidence clarified the actual makeup of that deep region. The term nife combined the chemical symbols for nickel and iron into a single memorable word.
How NIFE is used
Rarely used in modern geology outside of historical or etymological discussion.
- Early textbooks referred to the deep material as nife.
- The term nife fell out of common scientific use decades ago.
- Students rarely encounter the word nife in modern courses.
- Historians of science still mention nife when discussing old theories.
- The lecture briefly explained where the word nife came from.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of NIFE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of NIFE
The 4 tiles of NIFE in a different order — 4 found.
Words starting with NIFE
3 longer words begin with NIFE.
Words ending in NIFE
7 words end in NIFE. Useful as a back hook: play NIFE onto a word already on the board.
Words with NIFE inside
Showing 24 of 79 words that contain NIFE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with NIFE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in NIFE
Common questions about NIFE
- Is NIFE valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and NIFE is not in it.
- How many points is NIFE worth?
- NIFE is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does NIFE mean?
- A historical term for the hypothesized nickel-iron composition of the Earths core.
- What letters can be added to NIFE?
- NIFE takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of NIFE:
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