Unscramble NELIES and you have 70 words, NELIES itself among them: it scores 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. 4 anagrams of NELIES are on the page: ENISLE, ENSILE, SENILE and SILENE, each 6 points. The best shorter words score 5: 11 of them, LINES, LIENS and SEINE included. 6 letters: 3 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.
Words from NELIES by length: 5 with 6 letters, 11 with 5, 25 with 4, 20 with 3 and 9 with 2.
Keep every letter of NELIES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 6-letter words: starting with NE · ending in ES · all 6-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by ENISLE, ENSILE and SENILE (6 points each).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
NELIES is a Scrabble word (Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| NELIES itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 70) | 49 | 70 | 48 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
21 of the 70 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: NELIES, SILENE, EISEL, ELSIN, ESILE, NELIS, SILEN, EINE, ENES, NIES, SEIL, SELE and 9 more. 1 of the 70 answers is missing from Words With Friends*: ESNE.
With one more tile, the letters of NELIES spell the words below.