What NILS Means
NILS is a form of NIL, which means:
- noun: a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential“it looked like nothing I had ever seen before”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
NILS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 4 in Scrabble and 4 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as N1 I1 L1 S1.
Anagrams of NILS (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In NILS
10 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.
3 letter words (6)
2 letter words (4)
Longer Words Containing NILS
NILS appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.