RETUSE is a valid Scrabble word — 6 points
Yes. RETUSE 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 RETUSE?
| 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 RETUSE is to know. It scores 6 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 7.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for RETUSE
No single letter turns RETUSE into another word.
How RETUSE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in RETUSE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| r | 1 | 6 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 31,357.
What does RETUSE mean in Scrabble?
adjective
botanytechnical
Having a rounded tip with a shallow notch in the middle, used especially to describe the shape of a leaf or petal.
Botanists use retuse to describe a leaf, petal or similar plant part whose rounded end dips inward slightly at the center instead of coming to a point, giving the tip a faint heart-shaped or notched look. The term belongs to a family of precise words botanists use for leaf-tip shapes, alongside acute for pointed tips and emarginate for a deeper notch, and retuse sits between the two by describing only a shallow dip. Field guides and plant identification keys rely on such exact vocabulary because leaf shape is often the fastest way to tell closely related species apart. Outside botanical writing the word is essentially unused, so most readers encounter it only in plant descriptions or dictionaries.
How RETUSE is used
Technical botanical term, used almost exclusively in descriptions of leaf or petal shape in plant identification guides.
- The guide described the leaf as retuse, with a faint notch at its rounded tip.
- A retuse leaf differs from an emarginate one mainly in how deep the notch runs.
- Botanists noted the retuse petals as a key identifying feature.
- The specimen retuse leaflets helped narrow down its species.
- Few readers outside botany ever come across the word retuse.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of RETUSE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
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Common questions about RETUSE
- Is RETUSE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts RETUSE, where it scores 7 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is RETUSE worth?
- RETUSE is worth 6 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
- What does RETUSE mean?
- Having a rounded tip with a shallow notch in the middle, used especially to describe the shape of a leaf or petal.
- What letters can be added to RETUSE?
- No single letter can be added to RETUSE to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of RETUSE:
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