What NEOTENY Means
- noun: an evolutionary trend to be born earlier so that development is cut off at an earlier stage and juvenile characteristics are retained in adults of the species
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
NEOTENY is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 10 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as N1 E1 O1 T1 E1 N1 Y4.
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 NEOTENY
61 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.
5 letter words (9)
4 letter words (17)
3 letter words (22)
2 letter words (13)
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