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Is nicker a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word nicker is a Scrabble US word. The word nicker is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

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Is nicker a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word nicker is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

N1I1C3K5E1R1

Is nicker a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word nicker is a Words With Friends word. The word nicker is worth 14 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (1 found)

NICKER,

5-letter words (6 found)

CRINE,ERICK,ICKER,INKER,NICER,REINK,

4-letter words (21 found)

CINE,CIRE,ERIC,ICER,KEIR,KERN,KIER,KINE,KIRN,NECK,NERK,NICE,NICK,RECK,REIK,REIN,RENK,RICE,RICK,RINE,RINK,

3-letter words (18 found)

EIK,ERK,ERN,ICE,ICK,IKE,INK,IRE,IRK,KEN,KIN,KIR,NEK,NIE,REC,REI,REN,RIN,

2-letter words (6 found)

EN,ER,IN,KI,NE,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 53 words from nicker according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of nicker

nicker

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈnɪkə(ɹ)/
  • Rhymes: -ɪkə(ɹ)
  • Homophone: knicker; nikka (in non-rhotic accents)

Etymology 1

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Noun

nicker (plural nicker)

  1. (British, slang) Pound sterling.
Synonyms
  • (pound sterling): pound (standard), pound sterling (standard), quid (slang), sov (slang)
Derived terms
  • Alan Whicker

Etymology 2

Imitative; from 1774.

Noun

nicker (plural nickers)

  2. A soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.
    Hypernym: neigh
    Coordinate term: (sometimes synonymous) whinny
  4. A snigger or suppressed laugh.

Verb

nicker (third-person singular simple present nickers, present participle nickering, simple past and past participle nickered)

  2. To make a soft neighing sound characteristic of a horse.
    Hypernym: neigh
    Coordinate term: (sometimes synonymous) whinny
  3. To produce a snigger or suppressed laugh.
Translations

Etymology 3

nick +‎ -er

Noun

nicker (plural nickers)

  1. (obsolete, slang) One of the night brawlers of London formerly noted for breaking windows with halfpence.
    • 1713-1714, John Arbuthnot, Memoirs of Martin Scriblerus
      your modern musicians want art to defend their windows from common nickers
  2. The cutting lip which projects downward at the edge of a boring bit and cuts a circular groove in the wood to limit the size of the hole that is bored.
  3. (informal) Someone who nicks (steals) something, a thief.

Verb

nicker (third-person singular simple present nickers, present participle nickering, simple past and past participle nickered)

  1. (UK, informal) To snatch or steal.

Etymology 4

From Middle English niker, from Old English nicor, from Proto-Germanic *nikwis. Cognate with German Nix (“water demon”) and German Nixe (“mermaid”); also related to Old Norse nykr (“water demon”) (see there for further descendants). Doublet of nix.

Noun

nicker (plural nickers)

  1. A type of mythological sea creature or sea monster; also, a water sprite; a nix or nixie; a mermaid or merman.
Alternative forms
  • nikker

Etymology 5

Mispronunciation of nigger.

Noun

nicker (plural nickers)

  1. (euphemistic, vulgar, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) nigger.

See also

Anagrams

  • Cernik, Kincer, Renick

Source: wiktionary.org