Is NIP a Scrabble word?
Yes. NIP is a valid Scrabble word in both tournament lists, NWL2023 and Collins, and in ENABLE. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends.
Meaning To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
Verb 4 meanings
To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
To benumb [e.g., cheeks, fingers, nose] by severe cold.
To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
Noun 4 meanings
A playful bite.
“The puppy gave his owner’s finger a nip.”
A pinch with the nails or teeth.
Briskly cold weather.
“There is a nip in the air. It is nippy outside.”
A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching
“the nip of masses of ice”
Etymology
From late Middle English nippen, probably of Low German or Dutch origin, probably a byform of earlier *knippen (suggested by the derivative Middle English knippette (“pincers”)), from Middle Low German knîpen, from Old Saxon *knīpan, from Proto-West Germanic *knīpan, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *knīpaną (“to pinch”).
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NIP at a glance
NIP has 3 letters and scores 5 points in Scrabble (N 1 + I 1 + P 3) and 7 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #18,747 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins (older SOWPODS edition).
Words ending in -NIP
More endings- SNIP6
- TURNIP8
- CATNIP10
- PARSNIP11
- FROSTNIP13
- GENIP8
- POGONIP12
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