ENATE is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. ENATE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 6 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ENATE?
| 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: 35 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ENATE is to know. It scores 5 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 9.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ENATE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ENATE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in ENATE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 2 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 3,521.
What stands out about ENATE
- ENATE begins and ends with the same letter.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does ENATE mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technical
Related through descent from the same mother or female line, as distinct from agnate, which denotes relation through the father's line.
Enate describes a family connection traced through women rather than men, a distinction that once mattered greatly in inheritance law and genealogy. A person's enate relatives might include a maternal grandmother, an aunt on the mother's side, or cousins linked only through female ancestors. The opposite term, agnate, covers relatives connected purely through the father's line, and older legal systems sometimes treated the two kinds of kinship very differently for purposes of inheritance. The same root also gives English enation, a term biologists use for outgrowths that develop on the surface of a plant.
How ENATE is used
Chiefly a technical term in genealogy, anthropology and older legal writing about inheritance and kinship.
- Her enate relatives gathered for the reunion on her mother's side.
- The old will divided property differently between agnate and enate heirs.
- Anthropologists mapped the enate line back through five generations of women.
- He traced his enate ancestry to a village his great-grandmother left as a child.
- The genealogist explained which cousins counted as enate relatives.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ENATE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ENATE
The 5 tiles of ENATE in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with ENATE
1 longer words begin with ENATE.
Words ending in ENATE
24 words end in ENATE. Useful as a back hook: play ENATE onto a word already on the board.
Words with ENATE inside
Showing 24 of 46 words that contain ENATE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with ENATE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in ENATE
Common questions about ENATE
- Is ENATE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ENATE, where it scores 6 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ENATE worth?
- ENATE is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ENATE mean?
- Related through descent from the same mother or female line, as distinct from agnate, which denotes relation through the father's line.
- What letters can be added to ENATE?
- ENATE takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of ENATE:
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