NOMEN is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. NOMEN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept NOMEN?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful NOMEN is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for NOMEN
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
nomensChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How NOMEN scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in NOMEN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| n | 2 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 26,142.
What stands out about NOMEN
- NOMEN begins and ends with the same letter.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does NOMEN mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
In ancient Rome, the second of a citizen's three names, indicating the family clan to which he or she belonged.
A Roman citizen's full name typically had three parts: the praenomen, or personal name; the nomen, naming the wider clan or gens; and the cognomen, marking a particular branch of that family, as in Marcus Tullius Cicero. The nomen was the most stable part of the name, passed down through generations to show shared ancestry. Historians and Latin scholars still use the term nomen when explaining Roman naming customs.
How NOMEN is used
Historical and scholarly term, used mainly when discussing ancient Roman naming conventions.
- Tullius was the nomen shared by Cicero's whole clan.
- Historians explain how a Roman citizen's nomen identified his family.
- The inscription preserves only the nomen of the buried man.
- Roman daughters usually took the feminine form of their father's nomen.
- Scholars debate the origin of several ancient Roman nomen forms.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of NOMEN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with NOMEN
10 longer words begin with NOMEN.
Words ending in NOMEN
4 words end in NOMEN. Useful as a back hook: play NOMEN onto a word already on the board.
Words with NOMEN inside
Showing 24 of 53 words that contain NOMEN somewhere in the middle. Words that start with NOMEN are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in NOMEN
Common questions about NOMEN
- Is NOMEN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts NOMEN, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is NOMEN worth?
- NOMEN is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does NOMEN mean?
- In ancient Rome, the second of a citizen's three names, indicating the family clan to which he or she belonged.
- What letters can be added to NOMEN?
- NOMEN takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of NOMEN:
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