NOOKIE is valid in Collins, not in North America — 10 points
It depends on the list you play by. NOOKIE 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 10 points. Words with Friends does accept it.
Which word lists accept NOOKIE?
| 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 | Valid |
Word power: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful NOOKIE is to know. It scores 10 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 7.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for NOOKIE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How NOOKIE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in NOOKIE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| n | 1 | 6 |
| o | 2 | 8 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 65,700.
What does NOOKIE mean in Scrabble?
noun
informal
Sexual activity, in casual and jocular speech.
Nookie is a comic word rather than a coarse one: it belongs to seaside postcards, situation comedy and the kind of joke that stops short of anything explicit. Its origin has never been settled, and the nudging tone it carries is the whole reason broadcasters have always treated nookie far more gently than the words beside it.
How NOOKIE is used
Uncountable. Jocular rather than offensive, but not used in formal writing.
- The sitcom used nookie because the alternative would not have passed.
- Nookie appears in scripts of that decade as a way round the censor.
- A style guide calls nookie dated rather than offensive.
- The word nookie carries a joke that the plainer terms do not.
- Broadcasters allowed nookie in the afternoon and very little else.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of NOOKIE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with NOOKIE
3 longer words begin with NOOKIE.
Shorter words from the letters in NOOKIE
Common questions about NOOKIE
- Is NOOKIE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts NOOKIE, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is NOOKIE worth?
- NOOKIE is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does NOOKIE mean?
- Sexual activity, in casual and jocular speech.
- What letters can be added to NOOKIE?
- NOOKIE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of NOOKIE:
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