n 1 i 1 c 3 k 5 n 1 a 1 m 3 e 1
8 letters · 16 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name)
noun a descriptive name for a place or thing
verb give a nickname to
originFrom Middle English neke name, alteration (due to a rebracketing of an ekename as a nekename) of earlier ekename (“nickname”), from eke (“additional”) + name. Compare Old Norse aukanafn, auknafn, auknefni, Faroese eyknevni, Danish øgenavn, Norwegian Nynorsk aukenamn, Swedish öknamn, and German Low German Ökelname. For other similar cases of incorrect division, see also apron, daffodil, newt,…
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- kinema 12
- mack 12
- meck 12
- mick 12
- minke 11
- anemic 10
- cinema 10
- iceman 10
- cake 10
- kaim 10
- kame 10
- kami 10