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INEPTLY

7 letters, 12 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What INEPTLY Means

  1. adverb: with ineptitude; in an incompetent manner“he performed his functions ineptly”
  2. adverb: in a maladroit manner“this function is ineptly left to a small voice”

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

INEPTLY is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as I1 N1 E1 P3 T1 L1 Y4.

At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 62 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.

Words Made From The Letters In INEPTLY

106 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.

6 letter words (5)

5 letter words (11)

4 letter words (40)

3 letter words (37)

2 letter words (13)

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