URTICATE is a valid Scrabble word — 10 points
Yes. URTICATE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 10 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept URTICATE?
| 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: 44 / 100
Our own measure of how useful URTICATE is to know. It scores 10 from 8 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 6.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for URTICATE
Front hooks — 0
None.
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How URTICATE scores
Face value of the 8 tiles in URTICATE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| t | 2 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Longer than a 7-tile rack, so URTICATE has to be built on the board across turns.
What does URTICATE mean in Scrabble?
verb
rare
To sting or irritate the skin as a nettle does, leaving an itching, prickling rash.
The word urticate comes from the Latin name for the nettle, and it keeps that plant in the picture. It is far more at home in medical or botanical prose than in everyday talk. Scrabble players meet it mainly as a handy verb with a rare letter mix.
How URTICATE is used
Urticate appears chiefly in technical or literary writing about stinging plants and skin reactions.
- Brushing against the leaves can urticate bare arms for an hour.
- Some jellyfish tentacles urticate the skin of careless swimmers.
- The old herbalist claimed that she would urticate a sore joint to ease the pain.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of URTICATE and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with URTICATE
2 longer words begin with URTICATE.
Shorter words from the letters in URTICATE
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Common questions about URTICATE
- Is URTICATE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts URTICATE, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is URTICATE worth?
- URTICATE is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does URTICATE mean?
- To sting or irritate the skin as a nettle does, leaving an itching, prickling rash.
- What letters can be added to URTICATE?
- URTICATE takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 8 letters of URTICATE:
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