RETINE is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. RETINE 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 RETINE?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful RETINE is to know. It scores 6 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 8.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for RETINE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
retinesChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How RETINE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in RETINE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 9,291.
What stands out about RETINE
- 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 RETINE mean in Scrabble?
noun
technicalhistorical
A substance produced by body tissue that slows or limits the growth and division of its own cells.
Retine was a term biologists once used for chemical signals that a tissue releases to keep its own cell growth in check, an idea closely related to what later research called chalones. The concept behind retine helped explain why organs such as the liver stop growing once they reach the right size, since the tissue itself seems to send out a signal that dials growth back down. Modern cell biology has largely replaced the word with more precise names for specific growth-regulating molecules, so retine now shows up mainly in older scientific writing and specialist word lists. It should not be confused with retina, the light-sensing layer of the eye, even though the two words look almost identical.
How RETINE is used
Rare and mostly historical; found in older biology writing about tissue growth control rather than in current scientific vocabulary.
- The paper used the old term retine for the tissue growth-limiting signal.
- Researchers once explained wound healing limits by invoking retine.
- Retine is easy to confuse with retina, though the two share no real connection.
- Later studies gave more precise names to what earlier texts simply called retine.
- The lecture traced how retine evolved into the modern idea of a chalone.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of RETINE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of RETINE
The 6 tiles of RETINE in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with RETINE
3 longer words begin with RETINE.
Shorter words from the letters in RETINE
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Common questions about RETINE
- Is RETINE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts RETINE, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is RETINE worth?
- RETINE is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does RETINE mean?
- A substance produced by body tissue that slows or limits the growth and division of its own cells.
- What letters can be added to RETINE?
- RETINE takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of RETINE:
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