RETRAL is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. RETRAL 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 RETRAL?
| 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: 27 / 100
Our own measure of how useful RETRAL is to know. It scores 6 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 7.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for RETRAL
No single letter turns RETRAL into another word.
How RETRAL scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in RETRAL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 2 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 30,660.
What does RETRAL mean in Scrabble?
adjective
rarezoologytechnical
Situated at or toward the back; posterior, especially in zoological and anatomical description.
Retral is used mainly by zoologists and palaeontologists to describe a part of an animal body or shell that sits toward the rear rather than the front, as opposed to a forward position. It functions much like the everyday word posterior, but it appears almost exclusively in specialist anatomical writing rather than in casual speech. A retral direction can also describe a movement, such as a fin stroke or a muscle pull that acts backward rather than forward. Because the word is so narrowly technical, most general dictionaries mark it as rare, and readers are far more likely to meet posterior or rearward in ordinary text.
How RETRAL is used
Technical; found chiefly in zoology and palaeontology when describing the rear or posterior position of a body part.
- The fossil retral spines pointed away from the head.
- Researchers measured the retral edge of the shell for comparison.
- A retral muscle pulls the fin backward during the stroke.
- The paper used retral rather than posterior throughout the description.
- Its retral segments were noticeably narrower than the front ones.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of RETRAL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with RETRAL
1 longer words begin with RETRAL.
Shorter words from the letters in RETRAL
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Common questions about RETRAL
- Is RETRAL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts RETRAL, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is RETRAL worth?
- RETRAL is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does RETRAL mean?
- Situated at or toward the back; posterior, especially in zoological and anatomical description.
- What letters can be added to RETRAL?
- No single letter can be added to RETRAL to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of RETRAL:
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