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Is nothing a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word nothing is a Scrabble US word. The word nothing is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Is nothing a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word nothing is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

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Is nothing a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word nothing is a Words With Friends word. The word nothing is worth 13 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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7-letter words (1 found)

NOTHING,

6-letter words (5 found)

HONING,NOTING,THINGO,TIGNON,TONING,

5-letter words (12 found)

HOING,HONGI,INGOT,NIGHT,NINTH,NITON,NOINT,OHING,THING,THONG,TIGON,TOING,

4-letter words (17 found)

GINN,GOTH,HING,HINT,HONG,INGO,INTO,NIGH,NONG,NONI,OINT,THIG,THIN,THIO,THON,TING,TONG,

3-letter words (26 found)

GHI,GIN,GIO,GIT,GON,GOT,HIN,HIT,HOG,HOI,HON,HOT,ING,INN,ION,NIT,NOG,NOH,NON,NOT,NTH,THO,TIG,TIN,TOG,TON,

2-letter words (13 found)

GI,GO,HI,HO,IN,IO,IT,NO,OH,OI,ON,TI,TO,

You can make 74 words from nothing according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of nothing

nothing

Alternative forms

  • (nonstandard) nuffin, nuffink, nuttin, nuttin', nuthin, nuthin', nuthing, nothin', nothink

Etymology

From Middle English nothyng, noon thing, non thing, na þing, nan thing, nan þing, from Old English nāþing, nān þing (“nothing”, literally “not any thing”), equivalent to no +‎ thing. Compare Old English nāwiht (“nothing”, literally “no thing”), Swedish ingenting (“nothing”, literally “not any thing, no thing”).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: nŭth'ĭng, IPA(key): /ˈnʌθɪŋ/
  • (informal) IPA(key): [ˈnʌʔn̩]
  • Hyphenation: noth‧ing
  • Rhymes: -ʌθɪŋ

Pronoun

nothing (indefinite pronoun)

  1. Not any thing; no thing.
  2. An absence of anything, including empty space, brightness, darkness, matter, or a vacuum.

Synonyms

  • (not any thing):
    • (standard): not a thing, naught
    • (slang): jack, nada, zip, zippo, zilch, squat, nix
    • (vulgar slang): bugger all, jack shit, sod all (British), fuck all, dick
    • (Northern English dialect): nowt
See Thesaurus:nothing
  • (something trifling): nothing of any consequence, nothing consequential, nothing important, nothing significant, something inconsequential, something insignificant, something of no consequence, something trifling, something unimportant

Antonyms

  • anything
  • everything
  • something

Translations

Noun

nothing (countable and uncountable, plural nothings)

  1. Something trifling, or of no consequence or importance.
    - What happened to your face?
    - It's nothing.
  2. A trivial remark especially in the term sweet nothings.
  3. A nobody (insignificant person).

Translations

Adverb

nothing (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Not at all; in no way.

Adjective

nothing (not comparable)

  1. Completely unimportant.

Interjection

nothing

  1. Never mind; it's not important; forget what I said.

Derived terms

Related terms

Coordinate terms

  • nobody, no one
  • nowhere

References

  • John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “nothing”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Source: wiktionary.org