Unscramble NEWT to get 15 words. NEWT itself is a real word: 7 points on a Scrabble board, 8 in Words With Friends. 1 anagram of NEWT is on the page: WENT, each 7 points. Among the shorter answers, 5 reach 6 points, NEW, WET and WEN among them. It has 4 letters, 1 vowel and 3 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from NEWT split into 2 with 4 letters, 7 with 3 and 6 with 2.
Keep every letter of NEWT but one, change that one, and you get:
More 4-letter words: starting with NE · ending in WT · all 4-letter words
Add two letters to NEWT:
What NEWT means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept NEWT, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| NEWT itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 15) | 14 | 15 | 12 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Words With Friends* skips 2 of them: EW and TE. Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 1 of them: EWT.
These 5 words take every letter of NEWT plus a single extra one.