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NEOTENIES

9 letters, 9 points in Scrabble, 5 vowels

What NEOTENIES Means

NEOTENIES is a form of NEOTENY, which means:

  1. 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

NEOTENIES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as N1 E1 O1 T1 E1 N1 I1 E1 S1.

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