What NIT Means
- noun: a luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source
- noun: egg or young of an insect parasitic on mammals especially a sucking louse; often attached to a hair or item of clothing
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
NIT is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 3 in Scrabble and 3 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as N1 I1 T1.
Anagrams of NIT (1)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In NIT
3 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.
2 letter words (3)
Longer Words Containing NIT
NIT appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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