RETIAL is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. RETIAL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept RETIAL?
| 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: 28 / 100
Our own measure of how useful RETIAL is to know. It scores 6 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 7.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for RETIAL
No single letter turns RETIAL into another word.
How RETIAL scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in RETIAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 8,517.
What stands out about RETIAL
- The same 6 tiles also spell 3 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does RETIAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
technicalzoology
Relating to a rete, a network of blood vessels, nerves, or fibers in the body.
Retial comes from the Latin rete, a net, and doctors and anatomists use it to describe any dense mesh of small vessels or nerve fibers rather than a single named structure. The best known retial structure is the rete mirabile, a tangle of intertwined arteries and veins found in the legs of wading birds and the necks of some fish, which exchanges heat or gases between blood flowing in opposite directions. Because ordinary readers rarely meet the word outside a biology textbook, it is treated in dictionaries mainly as a narrow technical term. A related older sense ties retial to the pierced plate of an astrolabe, an instrument whose star pointers form their own kind of network.
How RETIAL is used
Technical; appears in anatomy and zoology writing about vascular or nerve networks, almost never in everyday speech.
- The surgeon studied the retial pattern of vessels before attempting the graft.
- A retial network lets the leg of a wading bird lose heat without much blood loss.
- Textbooks describe the rete mirabile as a classic retial arrangement in fish gills.
- Few outside anatomy classes ever use the word retial in conversation.
- Is that clump of fine vessels retial, or just a tangle from the injury.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of RETIAL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of RETIAL
The 6 tiles of RETIAL in a different order — 3 found.
Shorter words from the letters in RETIAL
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Common questions about RETIAL
- Is RETIAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts RETIAL, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is RETIAL worth?
- RETIAL is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does RETIAL mean?
- Relating to a rete, a network of blood vessels, nerves, or fibers in the body.
- What letters can be added to RETIAL?
- No single letter can be added to RETIAL to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of RETIAL:
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