NUBILE is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. NUBILE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept NUBILE?
| 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: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful NUBILE is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for NUBILE
No single letter turns NUBILE into another word.
How NUBILE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in NUBILE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| n | 1 | 6 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| b | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 57,487.
What does NUBILE mean in Scrabble?
adjective
literary
Of a girl or young woman, old enough or physically mature enough for marriage.
Nubile comes from the Latin nubere, to marry, the same root that gives English nuptial, and it originally described a young woman who had reached an age considered suitable for marriage in traditional society. Modern writing sometimes stretches the word toward simply attractive or sexually mature, a shift many readers find uncomfortable, so careful writers keep it closer to its original sense of marriageable age. The adjective applies only to young women, never to men or to unrelated things.
How NUBILE is used
Literary and somewhat dated in tone; increasingly avoided in casual writing because of its narrow focus on young women.
- In the old story, the king searched the kingdom for a nubile bride for his son.
- By tradition, a nubile daughter was expected to marry within a year of coming of age.
- The novel is set in a society where a nubile girl had little say in choosing her husband.
- Anthropologists studied how different cultures marked the passage from child to nubile woman.
- The play's villain plots to marry off his nubile ward for money.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of NUBILE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in NUBILE
Common questions about NUBILE
- Is NUBILE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts NUBILE, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is NUBILE worth?
- NUBILE is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does NUBILE mean?
- Of a girl or young woman, old enough or physically mature enough for marriage.
- What letters can be added to NUBILE?
- No single letter can be added to NUBILE to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of NUBILE:
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