NONTRIVIAL is a valid Scrabble word — 13 points
Yes. NONTRIVIAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 13 points in Scrabble and 17 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept NONTRIVIAL?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
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| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful NONTRIVIAL is to know. It scores 13 from 10 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for NONTRIVIAL
No single letter turns NONTRIVIAL into another word.
How NONTRIVIAL scores
Face value of the 10 tiles in NONTRIVIAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| n | 2 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so NONTRIVIAL has to be built on the board across turns.
What does NONTRIVIAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Important or difficult enough to deserve real attention; in mathematics, of a solution that is not the obvious one where every value is zero.
Engineers and programmers say nontrivial to admit that a job will take real effort. In mathematics the term is exact: a nontrivial solution is one that is not simply all zeros.
How NONTRIVIAL is used
Often used as an understatement in technical talk, where calling a task nontrivial warns that it is harder than it looks.
- Moving the whole database is a nontrivial task.
- The equations have a nontrivial solution only for certain values.
- The bug turned out to be nontrivial to track down.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of NONTRIVIAL and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in NONTRIVIAL
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Common questions about NONTRIVIAL
- Is NONTRIVIAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts NONTRIVIAL, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is NONTRIVIAL worth?
- NONTRIVIAL is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does NONTRIVIAL mean?
- Important or difficult enough to deserve real attention; in mathematics, of a solution that is not the obvious one where every value is zero.
- What letters can be added to NONTRIVIAL?
- No single letter can be added to NONTRIVIAL to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 10 letters of NONTRIVIAL:
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