FreeScrabbleDictionary

nigel

Not valid in Scrabble

It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
6
Words With Friends
9
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈnaɪd͡ʒəl/

Definition of nigel

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

name

  1. A male given name from Latin, of mostly British usage.
    “'I thought, sir,' answered Nigel, with as much haughtiness as was consistent with the cool distance he desired to preserve, 'I thought I had told you, my name was Nigel Grahame.' His eminence of Whitefriars on this burst into a loud, chuckling, impudent laugh, repeating the word, till his voice was almost inarticulate, - 'Niggle Green - Niggle Green - Niggle Green! why, my lord, you would be queered in the drinking of a penny pot of Malmsey, if you cry before you are touched.'”
    “It might come as some small comfort to Nigel Farage to discover that it’s not just those on his side of the Brexit debate who have fallen victim to potential ‘debanking’.”
See all 4 definitions

name

  1. A male given name from Latin, of mostly British usage.
    “'I thought, sir,' answered Nigel, with as much haughtiness as was consistent with the cool distance he desired to preserve, 'I thought I had told you, my name was Nigel Grahame.' His eminence of Whitefriars on this burst into a loud, chuckling, impudent laugh, repeating the word, till his voice was almost inarticulate, - 'Niggle Green - Niggle Green - Niggle Green! why, my lord, you would be queered in the drinking of a penny pot of Malmsey, if you cry before you are touched.'”
    “It might come as some small comfort to Nigel Farage to discover that it’s not just those on his side of the Brexit debate who have fallen victim to potential ‘debanking’.”
  2. A small mining town in Ekurhuleni municipality, Gauteng province, South Africa.

noun

  1. (Australia, derogatory)Synonym of dweeb (“boring or socially inept person”).
    “He's such a Nigel, hanging around in the library all day by himself.”
  2. (derogatory, slang)An Englishman.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

English form of Latin Nigellus, from nigellus (“slightly black”), diminutive of niger (“(shining) black”), particularly used in the Middle Ages to Latinize Norman Néel and Irish Neil.

Anagrams of nigel

5 plays · some not in Scrabble

Best play ingle 6 points

Words you can make from nigel

23 playable · top: INGLE (6 pts)

Best play ingle 6 points

4-letter words

5 words

3-letter words

11 words

2-letter words

6 words

Find your best play with nigel

See every word you can make from a set of letters that includes nigel, or browse word lists you can mine for high-scoring plays.

Find more plays Browse word lists