147 words come out when you unscramble NEGLECTS, starting with NEGLECTS itself: 11 in Scrabble, 15 in Words With Friends. NEGLECT is the best of the shorter words, at 10 points. It has 8 letters, 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from NEGLECTS split into 1 with 8 letters, 3 with 7, 10 with 6, 38 with 5, 55 with 4, 32 with 3 and 8 with 2.
CLEGS scores highest among the 5-letter words from NEGLECTS at 8 points, ahead of CELTS and CENSE on 7. TEENS, STEEL and SCENE are the ones most people know.
The best of the 4-letter words you get when you unscramble NEGLECTS is CLEG, 7 points; CEES and CELS on 6 follow. TEEN, SEEN and SENT are everyday picks.
Keep every letter of NEGLECTS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with NE · ending in TS · all 8-letter words
The meaning of NEGLECTS, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept NEGLECTS, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEGLECTS itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 147) | 120 | 147 | 108 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: CTENES, LENGEST, CTENE, GLENTS, CENS, GLENT, LENGS, ETENS, LENG, NETES, STEEN, TENES and 15 more, 27 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: CLEGS, CLEG, TENGES, TECS, TENGE, NEGS, TEC, ESNE, NEG, EST, TES and TE, 12 in all.
With one more tile, the letters of NEGLECTS spell the words below.