LEUCIN is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. LEUCIN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept LEUCIN?
| 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 LEUCIN is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for LEUCIN
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How LEUCIN scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in LEUCIN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| l | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 57,487.
What does LEUCIN mean in Scrabble?
noun
chemistryarchaic
An amino acid, now more often spelled leucine, that is an essential building block of most proteins.
Chemists in the nineteenth century first isolated this substance from decomposing protein matter and named it leucin, from a Greek word for white, describing the pale crystals they obtained. The modern spelling leucine is now standard in biology and medicine, where the compound is recognised as one of the essential amino acids the body cannot make on its own and must obtain from food. The older spelling still appears in older chemistry texts and some dictionaries as an equivalent form of the same substance.
How LEUCIN is used
An older spelling now largely replaced by leucine; found mainly in older chemistry writing.
- Early chemists described leucin as a white, crystalline substance.
- Older textbooks list leucin among the products of protein breakdown.
- The dictionary entry treats leucin as an older form of the amino acid.
- Nineteenth-century researchers isolated leucin from digested tissue.
- Modern papers rarely use the spelling leucin, preferring leucine instead.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of LEUCIN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of LEUCIN
The 6 tiles of LEUCIN in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with LEUCIN
3 longer words begin with LEUCIN.
Shorter words from the letters in LEUCIN
Common questions about LEUCIN
- Is LEUCIN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts LEUCIN, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is LEUCIN worth?
- LEUCIN is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does LEUCIN mean?
- An amino acid, now more often spelled leucine, that is an essential building block of most proteins.
- What letters can be added to LEUCIN?
- LEUCIN takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of LEUCIN:
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