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What does alanine mean? Is alanine a Scrabble word?

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Is alanine a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word alanine is a Scrabble US word. The word alanine is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

A1L1A1N1I1N1E1

Is alanine a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word alanine is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

A1L1A1N1I1N1E1

Is alanine a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word alanine is a Words With Friends word. The word alanine is worth 10 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

A1L2A1N2I1N2E1

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7-letter words (1 found)

ALANINE,

6-letter words (2 found)

ALANIN,ANNEAL,

5-letter words (11 found)

ALANE,ALIEN,ALINE,ANILE,ANNAL,ELAIN,INANE,LANAI,LIANA,LIANE,LINEN,

4-letter words (25 found)

AINE,ALAE,ALAN,ANAL,ANAN,ANIL,ANNA,EINA,ELAN,ILEA,LAIN,LANA,LANE,LEAN,LIEN,LINE,LINN,NAAN,NAIL,NAIN,NALA,NANA,NANE,NEAL,NINE,

3-letter words (20 found)

AAL,AIA,AIL,AIN,ALA,ALE,ANA,ANE,ANI,ANN,EAN,INN,LEA,LEI,LIE,LIN,NAE,NAN,NIE,NIL,

2-letter words (13 found)

AA,AE,AI,AL,AN,EA,EL,EN,IN,LA,LI,NA,NE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 73 words from alanine according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of alanine

alanine

Etymology

From aldehyde +‎ -anine in reference to aldehyde, with the infix -an- for ease of pronunciation, when the German chemist Adolph Strecker first synthesized alanine in 1850 by mixing acetaldehyde (then just known as aldehyde) with ammonia, hydrogen cyanide, and hydrochloric acid.

Noun

alanine (countable and uncountable, plural alanines)

  1. (biochemistry, uncountable) A nonessential amino acid 2-aminopropanoic acid found in most animal proteins
  2. (countable) A specific residue, molecule, or isomer of this amino acid

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  • Elianna

French

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Noun

alanine f (plural alanines)

  1. (biochemistry) alanine

Italian

Noun

alanine f

  1. plural of alanina

Source: wiktionary.org