What NICKELS Means
NICKELS is a form of NICKEL, which means:
- noun: a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite
- noun: a United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar
- verb: plate with nickel“nickel the plate”
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
NICKELS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 13 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as N1 I1 C3 K5 E1 L1 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 63 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Anagrams of NICKELS (2)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In NICKELS
128 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.
6 letter words (11)
5 letter words (31)
4 letter words (45)
3 letter words (32)
2 letter words (9)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.