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Yes. The word nether is a Scrabble US word. The word nether is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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6-letter words (2 found)

NETHER,THRENE,

5-letter words (8 found)

ENTER,ETHER,ETHNE,RENTE,TERNE,THERE,THREE,TREEN,

4-letter words (19 found)

ERNE,ETEN,ETHE,HENT,HERE,HERN,HETE,NETE,REEN,RENT,RETE,TEEN,TEER,TEHR,TENE,TERN,THEE,THEN,TREE,

3-letter words (18 found)

EEN,ENE,ERE,ERN,ETH,HEN,HER,HET,NEE,NET,NTH,REE,REH,REN,RET,TEE,TEN,THE,

2-letter words (9 found)

EE,EH,EN,ER,ET,HE,NE,RE,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 57 words from nether according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of nether

nether

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /nɛð.ə/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /nɛð.ɚ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛðə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From Middle English nether, nethere, nithere, from Old English niþera (“lower, under, lowest”, adjective), from niþer, niþor (“below, beneath, down, downwards, lower, in an inferior position”, adverb), from Proto-West Germanic *niþer, from Proto-Germanic *niþer, *niþra (“down”), from Proto-Indo-European *ni-, *nei- (“in, down”). Cognates include Dutch neder, German nieder, Luxembourgish nidder, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish ned, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish nedre (“lower”), Faroese and Icelandic niður.

Adjective

nether (comparative nethermore, superlative nethermost)

  1. Lower; under.
  2. Lying beneath, or conceived as lying beneath, the Earth’s surface.
Synonyms
  • (lower): bottom, lower
  • (beneath the Earth's surface): subsurface, subterranean
Derived terms
Translations

Adverb

nether (comparative more nether, superlative most nether)

  1. Down; downward.
  2. Low; low down.

Etymology 2

Alteration of earlier nither, from Middle English nitheren, from Old English niþerian (“to depress, abase, bring low, humiliate, oppress, accuse, condemn”), from niþer (“below, beneath, down, downwards, lower, in an inferior position”). See above.

Alternative forms

  • nither

Verb

nether (third-person singular simple present nethers, present participle nethering, simple past and past participle nethered)

  1. (transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To bring or thrust down; bring or make low; lower; abase; humble.
  2. (transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To constrict; straiten; confine; restrict; suppress; lay low; keep under; press in upon; vex; harass; oppress.
  3. (transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To pinch or stunt with cold or hunger; check in growth; shrivel; straiten.
  4. (transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To shrink or huddle, as with cold; be shivery; tremble.
  5. (transitive, UK dialectal, Scotland) To depreciate; disparage; undervalue.
Derived terms
  • nethering

Noun

nether (plural nethers)

  1. (UK dialectal, Scotland) Oppression; stress; a withering or stunting influence.
  2. (mining) A trouble; a fault or dislocation in a seam of coal.

Anagrams

  • ethren, threne

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Etymology

From Middle English nethere, from Old English niþera.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nɛˈðiː/

Adjective

nether

  1. lower

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 59

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