COLICINE is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. COLICINE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept COLICINE?
| Official Scrabble Players Dictionary USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word List USA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble Words English in most countries | Valid |
| Words with Friends Zynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 42 / 100
Our own measure of how useful COLICINE is to know. It scores 12 from 8 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for COLICINE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
colicinesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How COLICINE scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in COLICINE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 2 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| i | 2 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so COLICINE has to be built on the board across turns.
What does COLICINE mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
A protein made by certain strains of the bacterium Escherichia coli that kills related bacterial strains.
Microbiologists study colicine to understand how bacteria compete with their close relatives. Because the toxin acts on bacteria rather than on people, it is a laboratory subject more than a medical one.
How COLICINE is used
Used in microbiology and genetics papers on bacterial toxins.
- The strain secretes a colicine that stops its neighbours from growing.
- Resistance to colicine depends on a surface receptor in the target cell.
- Researchers mapped the gene that codes for each colicine.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of COLICINE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with COLICINE
1 longer words begin with COLICINE.
Shorter words from the letters in COLICINE
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Common questions about COLICINE
- Is COLICINE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts COLICINE, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is COLICINE worth?
- COLICINE is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does COLICINE mean?
- A protein made by certain strains of the bacterium Escherichia coli that kills related bacterial strains.
- What letters can be added to COLICINE?
- COLICINE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of COLICINE:
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