ADENYL is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. ADENYL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ADENYL?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ADENYL is to know. It scores 10 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ADENYL
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
adenylsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ADENYL scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in ADENYL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| a | 1 | 9 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 57,487.
What does ADENYL mean in Scrabble?
noun
chemistry
A chemical group formed from adenine by the loss of one hydrogen atom.
Biochemists use adenyl as a building-block name, most visibly in adenylate cyclase, the enzyme that makes the signalling molecule cyclic AMP. Adenine itself is one of the four bases of DNA, and the adenyl portion carries that base into larger compounds. The name is built from adenine plus the suffix -yl, which marks a radical.
How ADENYL is used
Technical; seen in biochemistry and molecular biology texts.
- The adenyl group is attached to the sugar in the nucleotide.
- An enzyme transfers the adenyl unit to a new target.
- The textbook draws the adenyl radical beside its parent base.
- Each adenyl fragment in the chain was labelled for tracing.
- A single adenyl residue can change how the protein behaves.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ADENYL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with ADENYL
4 longer words begin with ADENYL.
Shorter words from the letters in ADENYL
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Common questions about ADENYL
- Is ADENYL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ADENYL, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ADENYL worth?
- ADENYL is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ADENYL mean?
- A chemical group formed from adenine by the loss of one hydrogen atom.
- What letters can be added to ADENYL?
- ADENYL takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of ADENYL:
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