RENATURE is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. RENATURE 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 RENATURE?
| 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: 47 / 100
Our own measure of how useful RENATURE is to know. It scores 8 from 8 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 7.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for RENATURE
Front hooks — 1
crenatureChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How RENATURE scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in RENATURE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 2 | 6 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so RENATURE has to be built on the board across turns.
What does RENATURE mean in Scrabble?
verb
technical
To restore a substance, especially a protein, to its original natural form after it has been denatured.
Biochemists renature a protein when they gently coax it back into its working shape. The process shows that the structure of some molecules can be recovered once the harsh conditions are removed.
How RENATURE is used
Renature is used in laboratory science for proteins and nucleic acids.
- Slow cooling allows the strands to renature into a double helix.
- The team tried to renature the enzyme after heating.
- Not every protein will renature once it has been unfolded.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of RENATURE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with RENATURE
2 longer words begin with RENATURE.
Shorter words from the letters in RENATURE
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Common questions about RENATURE
- Is RENATURE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts RENATURE, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is RENATURE worth?
- RENATURE is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does RENATURE mean?
- To restore a substance, especially a protein, to its original natural form after it has been denatured.
- What letters can be added to RENATURE?
- RENATURE takes 3 hooks: 1 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of RENATURE:
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