NUG is a valid Scrabble word, but not in Words with Friends — 4 points
Yes for Scrabble. NUG is in Collins and in the North American lists, so it stands in any Scrabble game. Words with Friends keeps a separate list and does not accept it.
Which word lists accept NUG?
| 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 | Not listed |
Word power: 29 / 100
Our own measure of how useful NUG is to know. It scores 4 from 3 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for NUG
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How NUG scores
Face value of the 3 tiles in NUG, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| n | 1 | 6 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
Drawing exactly these 3 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 2,246.
What stands out about NUG
- The same 3 tiles also spell 2 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does NUG mean in Scrabble?
noun
dialect
A small block or chunk of wood sawn from a log.
A nug is simply a short section cut crosswise from a larger log, small enough to handle or stack. Woodworkers and dialect speakers used the word for these leftover blocks long before nugget came to mean a small lump of something else.
How NUG is used
Found mainly in older dialect or regional speech about woodcutting.
- He tossed another nug onto the woodpile.
- The sawyer cut the trunk into even nugs.
- A nug of oak burned slowly in the stove.
- She stacked the nugs by the shed door.
- Each nug was about the length of her forearm.
- The carpenter kept a nug aside for kindling.
- A stray nug rolled off the cart on the bumpy road.
- He split the nug in two before feeding the fire.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of NUG and 8 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Where else you’ll see NUG
- The word is unrelated in origin to the modern slang nugget, despite the similar sound.
- A nug survives mainly in older regional dialect describing offcuts from a sawn log.
Anagrams of NUG
The 3 tiles of NUG in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with NUG
16 longer words begin with NUG.
Words ending in NUG
1 words end in NUG. Useful as a back hook: play NUG onto a word already on the board.
Words with NUG inside
Showing 24 of 26 words that contain NUG somewhere in the middle. Words that start with NUG are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in NUG
Common questions about NUG
- Is NUG valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and NUG is not in it.
- How many points is NUG worth?
- NUG is worth 4 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does NUG mean?
- A small block or chunk of wood sawn from a log.
- What letters can be added to NUG?
- NUG takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 3 letters of NUG:
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