night N₁I₁G₂H₄T₁

NIGHT names the dark period when the Sun is below the horizon, and it also describes an evening spent at a particular activity. It is a familiar English word, with a frequency rank of 208. For word games, its short spelling has a distinctive H worth 4 Scrabble points and only one exact anagram.

NIGHT at a glance

• Scrabble assigns NIGHT 9 base points: N, I, and T are 1 each, G is 2, and H is 4.
• THING is its sole anagram; the letters rearrange without adding or dropping a tile.
• Wordle includes NIGHT as both an answer and an allowed guess.
• Changing one letter produces 15 recorded neighbors, including RIGHT, LIGHT, and TIGHT.

What does NIGHT mean?

NIGHT is the dark period after evening, when the Sun is below the horizon. In a more precise astronomical sense, night begins after evening twilight ends and finishes when morning twilight starts. The everyday meaning is simpler: the stretch of darkness between evening and morning.

The word also names an evening spent doing something in particular, as in a night out or a night at a concert. That second sense makes NIGHT more than a label for darkness; it can describe an occasion. Its one anagram, THING, shares all five letters but has a completely different meaning.

How does NIGHT score in Scrabble and Wordle?

NIGHT totals 9 points before board bonuses. H supplies 4 of those points, while G adds 2 and the N, I, and T contribute 1 each. Keep the H on a premium letter square when the board allows it; the other tiles are low-value, so the letter placement drives the score.

NIGHT appears in Wordle’s answer list and its allowed-guess list, so it is a valid candidate as well as a legal probe. NIGHT is also included in Collins, NWL2023, and ENABLE. Game dictionaries can differ, so acceptance in one word game does not guarantee acceptance in every app.