NILL is a valid Scrabble word — 4 points
Yes. NILL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 4 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept NILL?
| 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: 26 / 100
Our own measure of how useful NILL is to know. It scores 4 from 4 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for NILL
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
nillsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How NILL scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in NILL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| n | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| l | 2 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 12,103.
What does NILL mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaic
To be unwilling, or to refuse to will something; to not wish.
Nill is the negative counterpart of the old verb will, and the two survive together only in the fixed phrase will he, nill he (whether he wants to or not), which later gave English the word willy-nilly. On its own nill has long dropped out of ordinary speech.
How NILL is used
Archaic; found almost only inside the fixed phrase will he, nill he, or in deliberately old-fashioned writing.
- Will he, nill he, the debt still had to be paid.
- The old text uses nill where we would now simply say refuse.
- She will attend, nill she attend, the choice was never hers.
- Grammarians note that nill survives only beside will in that one phrase.
- He read nill in the poem and had to look up what it meant.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of NILL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with NILL
3 longer words begin with NILL.
Words ending in NILL
2 words end in NILL. Useful as a back hook: play NILL onto a word already on the board.
Words with NILL inside
Showing 24 of 27 words that contain NILL somewhere in the middle. Words that start with NILL are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in NILL
Common questions about NILL
- Is NILL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts NILL, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is NILL worth?
- NILL is worth 4 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does NILL mean?
- To be unwilling, or to refuse to will something; to not wish.
- What letters can be added to NILL?
- NILL takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of NILL:
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