URATE is a valid Scrabble word — 5 points
Yes. URATE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 6 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept URATE?
| 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: 37 / 100
Our own measure of how useful URATE is to know. It scores 5 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 7.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for URATE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How URATE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in URATE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 4,841.
What does URATE mean in Scrabble?
noun
medicalchemistry
A salt formed when uric acid combines with a metal such as sodium or potassium.
Doctors track urate levels in the blood because a buildup of these crystals in the joints causes the painful swelling known as gout. Inside the body, uric acid commonly binds with sodium to form sodium urate, which can settle out of solution and crystallize when concentrations climb too high. Chemists also produce related urate compounds in the laboratory for research into kidney stones and metabolic disease.
How URATE is used
Common in medical and biochemical writing, especially discussions of gout, kidney stones and uric acid metabolism.
- A blood test measured the patient's urate level to check for gout.
- Needle-shaped urate crystals had formed in the swollen joint of his toe.
- The kidneys filter urate out of the bloodstream along with other waste.
- Persistently high urate levels can eventually cause painful deposits under the skin.
- Chemists produced sodium urate by combining uric acid with a sodium compound.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of URATE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with URATE
1 longer words begin with URATE.
Words ending in URATE
Showing 24 of 46 words that end in URATE. Useful as a back hook: play URATE onto a word already on the board.
Words with URATE inside
Showing 24 of 92 words that contain URATE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with URATE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in URATE
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Common questions about URATE
- Is URATE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts URATE, where it scores 6 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is URATE worth?
- URATE is worth 5 points in Scrabble and 6 points in Words with Friends.
- What does URATE mean?
- A salt formed when uric acid combines with a metal such as sodium or potassium.
- What letters can be added to URATE?
- URATE takes 3 hooks: 2 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of URATE:
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