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NAILS

5 letters, 5 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What NAILS Means

NAILS is a form of NAIL, which means:

  1. verb: attach something somewhere by means of nails“nail the board onto the wall”
  2. verb: take into custody“the police nabbed the suspected criminals”
  3. noun: horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits
  4. noun: a thin pointed piece of metal that is hammered into materials as a fastener

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

NAILS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 5 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as N1 A1 I1 L1 S1.

Anagrams of NAILS (3)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In NAILS

40 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.

4 letter words (13)

3 letter words (17)

2 letter words (10)

Longer Words Containing NAILS

NAILS appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.

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