Unscramble NELIS to get 41 words. NELIS itself is a real word: 5 points on a Scrabble board, 7 in Words With Friends. 5 anagrams of NELIS are on the page: ELSIN, LENIS, LIENS, LINES and SILEN, each 5 points. 13 shorter words score 4, among them LINE, LENS and LIES. 5 letters: 2 vowels and 3 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from NELIS split into 6 with 5 letters, 13 with 4, 14 with 3 and 8 with 2.
Keep every letter of NELIS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with NE · ending in IS · all 5-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with LENIS, LIENS and LINES (5 points each).
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Scrabble UK accepts NELIS, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| NELIS itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 41) | 32 | 41 | 32 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 9 of them: ELSIN, NELIS, SILEN, NIES, SEIL, SIEN, SILE, NIE and NIS.
With one more tile, the letters of NELIS spell the words below.