Is NEOTENY a word?
NEOTENY is a valid word in Scrabble and Words With Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words With Friends, has 7 letters, and can be rearranged into 0 other words, plus 48 shorter words built from the same letters.
Yes, NEOTENY is a valid word.
What does neoteny mean?
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.
Definition from WordNet, Princeton University.
NEOTENY: word details
- Pronunciation: nee-AH-tuh-nee (approx., 4 syllables)
- Length: 7 letters, a medium-length word. It is one of 33,192 7-letter words in our dictionary.
- Scrabble: worth 10 points on the tiles.
- Words With Friends: worth 11 points on the tiles.
- Games: recognised in the combined word list Unscrambly uses for Scrabble and Words With Friends. Acceptance in official tournament lists (TWL, SOWPODS) can vary.
Shorter words inside neoteny
Words you can make from the letters of neoteny.
Solve a whole rack, not just NEOTENY
NEOTENY is one word. If you are holding tiles rather than looking up a single entry, the Scrabble word finder ranks every play from your rack by points, and the Words With Friends solver scores the same letters with WWF values instead, which changes the order of the list.
Frequently asked questions
What does NEOTENY mean?
NEOTENY is a noun. It means: 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.
Is NEOTENY a valid word?
Yes, NEOTENY is a valid word. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words With Friends.
Unscrambly validity is based on a large open English word list used across word games. Word acceptance varies by the exact tournament dictionary in use.