NUGGETY is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. NUGGETY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept NUGGETY?
| 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: 48 / 100
Our own measure of how useful NUGGETY is to know. It scores 12 from 7 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 5.1% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for NUGGETY
No single letter turns NUGGETY into another word.
How NUGGETY scores
Face value of the 7 tiles in NUGGETY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| n | 1 | 6 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| g | 2 | 3 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 7 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 1,544 thousand.
What does NUGGETY mean in Scrabble?
adjective
AustralianNew Zealand
Short, solid and sturdily built, or occurring in small lumps like nuggets.
In Australian and New Zealand speech a nuggety person is compact and strong rather than tall. Miners also used it for ore or gold found in lumps instead of dust.
How NUGGETY is used
Nuggety is chiefly Australian or New Zealand English for a stocky build, with a mining sense for lumpy deposits.
- The nuggety halfback was hard to knock down.
- He was a small, nuggety man with arms like logs.
- The creek bed yielded a nuggety gold deposit.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of NUGGETY and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in NUGGETY
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Common questions about NUGGETY
- Is NUGGETY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts NUGGETY, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is NUGGETY worth?
- NUGGETY is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does NUGGETY mean?
- Short, solid and sturdily built, or occurring in small lumps like nuggets.
- What letters can be added to NUGGETY?
- No single letter can be added to NUGGETY to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 7 letters of NUGGETY:
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