NOUVEAU is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. NOUVEAU is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 14 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept NOUVEAU?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| 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: 52 / 100
Our own measure of how useful NOUVEAU is to know. It scores 10 from 7 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for NOUVEAU
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
nouveauxChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How NOUVEAU scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in NOUVEAU, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| n | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| u | 2 | 4 |
| v | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 257,323.
What stands out about NOUVEAU
- NOUVEAU runs three vowels in a row, which almost no English word does.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does NOUVEAU mean in Scrabble?
adjective
literary
Modern or up to date; having recently become the thing specified.
Nouveau comes straight from French and keeps a stylish, slightly foreign flavour in English. It is rarely used on its own and tends to appear as part of fixed borrowed phrases that point to something newly arrived.
How NOUVEAU is used
Mostly found in borrowed French phrases to mark something new or newly fashionable.
- The restaurant offered a nouveau take on country cooking.
- Critics called the furniture nouveau in spirit.
- Her nouveau style surprised the old guard.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of NOUVEAU and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with NOUVEAU
1 longer words begin with NOUVEAU.
Shorter words from the letters in NOUVEAU
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Common questions about NOUVEAU
- Is NOUVEAU valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts NOUVEAU, where it scores 14 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is NOUVEAU worth?
- NOUVEAU is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 14 points in Words with Friends.
- What does NOUVEAU mean?
- Modern or up to date; having recently become the thing specified.
- What letters can be added to NOUVEAU?
- NOUVEAU takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of NOUVEAU:
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