NIGHTMARISH is a valid Scrabble word — 20 points
Yes. NIGHTMARISH is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 20 points in Scrabble and 21 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept NIGHTMARISH?
| 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: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful NIGHTMARISH is to know. It scores 20 from 11 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for NIGHTMARISH
No single letter turns NIGHTMARISH into another word.
How NIGHTMARISH scores
Face value of the 11 tiles in NIGHTMARISH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| n | 1 | 6 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| h | 2 | 2 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so NIGHTMARISH has to be built on the board across turns.
What does NIGHTMARISH mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Extremely frightening, unpleasant or distressing, as a bad dream is.
A nightmarish journey or scene feels unreal and oppressive, even when it is fully awake and real. Writers reach for nightmarish when plain words like bad or scary seem too weak.
How NIGHTMARISH is used
Common in descriptions of ordeals, traffic, landscapes and films.
- The drive through the storm was nightmarish.
- The film builds a nightmarish vision of a city without light.
- She woke from a nightmarish sleep, shaking.
- Getting the visa turned into a nightmarish tangle of forms.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of NIGHTMARISH and 4 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with NIGHTMARISH
2 longer words begin with NIGHTMARISH.
Shorter words from the letters in NIGHTMARISH
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Common questions about NIGHTMARISH
- Is NIGHTMARISH valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts NIGHTMARISH, where it scores 21 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is NIGHTMARISH worth?
- NIGHTMARISH is worth 20 points in Scrabble and 21 points in Words with Friends.
- What does NIGHTMARISH mean?
- Extremely frightening, unpleasant or distressing, as a bad dream is.
- What letters can be added to NIGHTMARISH?
- No single letter can be added to NIGHTMARISH to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 11 letters of NIGHTMARISH:
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