What NEGLECT Means
- noun: lack of attention and due care
- noun: the state of something that has been unused and neglected“the house was in a terrible state of neglect”
- verb: leave undone or leave out“How could I miss that typo?”
- verb: fail to do something; leave something undone“She failed to notice that her child was no longer in his crib”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
NEGLECT is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as N1 E1 G2 L1 E1 C3 T1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 60 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Words Made From The Letters In NEGLECT
53 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 (1)
5 letter words (6)
4 letter words (18)
3 letter words (22)
2 letter words (6)
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