NIRL is valid in Collins, not in North America — 4 points
It depends on the list you play by. NIRL 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 4 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept NIRL?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful NIRL is to know. It scores 4 from 4 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for NIRL
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How NIRL scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in NIRL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| n | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 3,026.
What does NIRL mean in Scrabble?
verb
Scots
To shrink, shrivel, or become stunted, especially from cold or hardship.
Nirl is a Scots dialect verb used mainly of plants, skin, or small creatures that shrink and pucker in cold weather, and by extension of a person or thing left stunted or undersized. It has no single ordinary English word that covers exactly the same idea of shrinking through cold.
How NIRL is used
Scots dialect; used of skin, plants, or small creatures pinched by cold rather than of large things shrinking generally.
- The frost made the young shoots nirl overnight.
- Her fingers began to nirl in the biting wind.
- Old accounts describe crops that nirl in a hard spring.
- The dialect word nirl fits the shrivelled look of the leaf.
- Cold can nirl bare skin within minutes on the hill.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of NIRL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with NIRL
8 longer words begin with NIRL.
Shorter words from the letters in NIRL
Common questions about NIRL
- Is NIRL valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and NIRL is not in it.
- How many points is NIRL worth?
- NIRL is worth 4 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does NIRL mean?
- To shrink, shrivel, or become stunted, especially from cold or hardship.
- What letters can be added to NIRL?
- NIRL takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of NIRL:
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