What LECTINS Means
LECTINS is a form of LECTIN, which means:
- noun: any of several plant glycoproteins that act like specific antibodies but are not antibodies in that they are not evoked by an antigenic stimulus
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
LECTINS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as L1 E1 C3 T1 I1 N1 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 59 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Anagrams of LECTINS (3)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In LECTINS
172 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 (17)
5 letter words (43)
4 letter words (60)
3 letter words (39)
2 letter words (13)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.