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NOMINAL

7 letters, 9 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What NOMINAL Means

  1. adjective: relating to or constituting or bearing or giving a name“the Russian system of nominal brevity”
  2. adjective: insignificantly small; a matter of form only (‘tokenish’ is informal)“the fee was nominal”
  3. noun: a phrase that can function as the subject or object of a verb

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

NOMINAL is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as N1 O1 M3 I1 N1 A1 L1.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 59 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In NOMINAL

88 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 (4)

5 letter words (6)

4 letter words (35)

3 letter words (26)

2 letter words (17)

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