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Is quinine a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word quinine is a Scrabble US word. The word quinine is worth 16 points in Scrabble:

Q10U1I1N1I1N1E1

Is quinine a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word quinine is a Scrabble UK word and has 16 points:

Q10U1I1N1I1N1E1

Is quinine a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word quinine is a Words With Friends word. The word quinine is worth 19 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

Q10U2I1N2I1N2E1

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7-letter words (1 found)

QUININE,

6-letter words (2 found)

QUINIE,QUININ,

5-letter words (2 found)

ENNUI,QUINE,

4-letter words (2 found)

NINE,QUIN,

3-letter words (5 found)

INN,NIE,NUN,QIN,UNI,

2-letter words (6 found)

EN,IN,NE,NU,QI,UN,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 19 words from quinine according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of quinine

quinine

Etymology

The noun is either:

  • derived from Spanish quina (“quinine”) (a clipping of quinaquina (“Cinchona bark”)) + English -ine (suffix forming names of chemical substances, especially (among others) alkaloidal substances);; or
  • borrowed from French quinine, from quin(quina) (“Cinchona bark”) + -ine (feminine form of -in (suffix forming nouns)).

Spanish quinaquina and French quinquina are both derived from Quechua kina-kina, a reduplication of kina (“bark; (specifically) Cinchona bark”).

The verb is derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kwɪˈniːn/, /ˈkwɪn.iːn/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkwaɪ.naɪn/, /ˈkwɪn.aɪn/
  • Rhymes: -iːn, -aɪn (some pronunciations)
  • Hyphenation: qui‧nine

Noun

quinine (countable and uncountable, plural quinines)

  1. (pharmacology) An alkaloid with the chemical formula C₂₀H₂₄N₂O₂ originally derived from cinchona bark (from plants of the genus Cinchona) used to treat malaria and as an ingredient of tonic water, which presents as a bitter colourless powder; also, a drug containing quinine or a chemical compound derived from it. [from early 19th c.]

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See also

  • Jesuit's bark

Verb

quinine (third-person singular simple present quinines, present participle quinining, simple past and past participle quinined)

  1. (transitive, archaic) To treat (someone) with quinine.
    Synonym: (obsolete) quininize

Derived terms

  • quinined (adjective)

Translations

References

Further reading

  • quinine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ki.nin/

Noun

quinine f (plural quinines)

  1. quinine

References

  • “quinine” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 8th Edition (1932–35).

Further reading

  • “quinine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Source: wiktionary.org