Unscramble NEEDS and you have 38 words, NEEDS itself among them: it scores 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. 4 anagrams of NEEDS are on the page: DEENS, DENES, DENSE and SNEED, each 6 points. Among the shorter answers, 10 reach 5 points, NEED, SEND and ENDS among them. 5 letters: 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
Looking for esedn, esdne, nesed, ndees, endse, edesn, eensd, eneds, snede or dsnee? They use the same letters as NEEDS, so the words on this page are their answers too.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Counting the words from NEEDS by length: 5 with 5 letters, 15 with 4, 12 with 3 and 6 with 2.
Keep every letter of NEEDS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with NE · ending in DS · all 5-letter words
Add two letters to NEEDS:
What NEEDS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes. NEEDS is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEEDS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 38) | 27 | 38 | 25 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: DEENS, SNEED, DEEN, NEDS, ENES, NED, SED, SNEE, EEN, ENE and EE, 11 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: EDS and ESNE, 2 in all.
With one more tile, the letters of NEEDS spell the words below.