CURARE is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. CURARE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept CURARE?
| 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: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful CURARE is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for CURARE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
curaresChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How CURARE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in CURARE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 2 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 91,979.
What does CURARE mean in Scrabble?
noun
medicalhistorical
A powerful paralysing poison originally extracted from the bark and stems of certain South American plants.
Indigenous hunters in the Amazon region boiled the bark of vines such as Strychnos species into a thick paste and used it to coat the tips of arrows and blowgun darts, so that even a shallow wound would stop a hunted animal from moving. The poison works by blocking the signal between nerve and muscle, which paralyzes the body without necessarily stopping the heart right away. Once European scientists understood this mechanism in the nineteenth century, they adapted curare and its modern derivatives into muscle relaxants used during surgery under anesthesia. Older spellings of the same substance, including curari and urare, appear in earlier travel writing and folklore texts.
How CURARE is used
Used both in historical accounts of South American hunting and in modern medical writing about muscle relaxants derived from it.
- Hunters tipped their darts with curare before setting out.
- Surgeons once used derivatives of curare to keep muscles relaxed during operations.
- The explorer described how local tribes prepared curare from tree bark.
- A tiny scratch from an arrow tipped with curare could paralyze a monkey within minutes.
- Museum displays label the dark paste simply as curare.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of CURARE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with CURARE
1 longer words begin with CURARE.
Shorter words from the letters in CURARE
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Common questions about CURARE
- Is CURARE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts CURARE, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is CURARE worth?
- CURARE is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does CURARE mean?
- A powerful paralysing poison originally extracted from the bark and stems of certain South American plants.
- What letters can be added to CURARE?
- CURARE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of CURARE:
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