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Is nuke a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word nuke is a Scrabble US word. The word nuke is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

N1U1K5E1

Is nuke a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word nuke is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

N1U1K5E1

Is nuke a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word nuke is a Words With Friends word. The word nuke is worth 10 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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Valid words made from Nuke

You can make 13 words from 'nuke' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.


4 letters words from 'nuke'

KUNE 8NEUK 8
NUKE 8 

3 letters words from 'nuke'

EUK 7KEN 7
KUE 7NEK 7
UKE 7 

2 letters words from 'nuke'

EN 2NE 2
NU 2UN 2

All 4 letters words made out of nuke

nuke unke nkue knue ukne kune nuek unek neuk enuk uenk eunk nkeu kneu neku enku kenu eknu uken kuen uekn eukn keun ekun

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word nuke. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in nuke.

Definitions and meaning of nuke

nuke

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /njuːk/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /n(j)uk/
  • Rhymes: -uːk
  • Homophones: neuk, nuc
  • Hyphenation: nuke

Etymology 1

Clipping of nuclear weapon. The verb is derived from the noun.

Noun

nuke (plural nukes) (chiefly US, colloquial)

  1. A nuclear weapon.
  2. (by extension) Something that destroys or negates, especially on a catastrophic scale.
  3. A nuclear power station.
  4. (nautical) A vessel such as a ship or submarine running on nuclear power.
  5. A person (such as a sailor in a navy or a scientist) who works with nuclear weapons or nuclear power.
  6. (warez) A cautionary flag placed on a release to label it as "bad" for some reason or another (e.g., being a dupe of a previous release or containing malware).
  7. (rare) A microwave oven.
Derived terms
  • antinuke
  • micronuke
  • nukage
  • nukespeak
  • nukewar
  • tacnuke
Translations

Verb

nuke (third-person singular simple present nukes, present participle nuking, simple past and past participle nuked)

  1. (transitive, chiefly US, colloquial) To use a nuclear weapon on a target.
  2. (transitive, chiefly US, colloquial, figuratively) To destroy or erase completely.
    Synonyms: annihilate, devastate, obliterate; see also Thesaurus:destroy
    1. (Wikimedia Commons jargon) to completely delete all uploads of an user, usually due to copyright violations or vandalism
  3. (transitive, Internet slang, by extension) To carry out a denial-of-service attack against (an IRC user).
  4. (transitive, chiefly US, colloquial) To expose to some form of radiation.
  5. (transitive, chiefly US, colloquial) To cook in a microwave oven.
  6. (transitive, warez) To flag a release as bad for some reason or another (for instance, due to being a dupe of an earlier release or containing malware).
  7. (transitive, US, nautical, colloquial) To over-analyze or overly despair over something.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

Clipping of nuc(leus)

Noun

nuke (plural nukes)

  1. Alternative spelling of nuc (“nucleus colony of bees”)

Etymology 3

See nucha.

Noun

nuke (plural nukes)

  2. (anatomy, obsolete) Alternative form of nucha (“spinal cord; nape of the neck”)

Etymology 4

See nook.

Noun

nuke (plural nukes)

  1. (chiefly Northern England, archaic) Alternative form of nook (“a corner of a piece of land; an angled piece of land, especially one extending into other land”)

References

Further reading

  • nuke (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • neuk, unke

Source: wiktionary.org
  • to attack with nuclear weapons.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)