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Is suture a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word suture is a Scrabble US word. The word suture is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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Is suture a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word suture is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

S1U1T1U1R1E1

Is suture a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word suture is a Words With Friends word. The word suture is worth 8 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (2 found)

SUTURE,UTERUS,

5-letter words (3 found)

STURE,TRUES,USURE,

4-letter words (17 found)

ERST,REST,RETS,RUES,RUSE,RUST,RUTS,SUER,SUET,SURE,TRES,TRUE,URES,URUS,USER,UTES,UTUS,

3-letter words (16 found)

ERS,EST,RES,RET,RUE,RUT,SER,SET,SUE,SUR,TES,URE,USE,UTE,UTS,UTU,

2-letter words (9 found)

ER,ES,ET,RE,ST,TE,UR,US,UT,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 48 words from suture according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of suture

suture

Etymology

From Middle English suture, from Latin sūtūra (“suture”), from suere (“sew, join or tack together”) +‎ -tūra (forms action nouns).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈs(j)uː.tʃə/, /ˈs(j)uː.tjʊə/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈsu.t͡ʃɚ/
  • Rhymes: -uːtʃə(ɹ)

Noun

suture (plural sutures)

  1. A seam formed by sewing two edges together, especially to join pieces of skin in surgically treating a wound.
  2. Thread used to sew or stitch two edges (especially of skin) together.
  3. (geology) An area where separate terrane join together along a major fault.
  4. (anatomy) A type of fibrous joint bound together by Sharpey's fibres which only occurs in the skull.
  5. (anatomy) A seam or line, such as that between the segments of a crustacean, between the whorls of a univalve shell, or where the elytra of a beetle meet.
  6. (botany) The seam at the union of two margins in a plant.
  7. (philosophy, figurative) The procedure by which a subject comes to be identified with its own representation, as in the identification of the speaker with the sign “I” within a certain discourse; (by extension) any process by which the content of something is determined or supplied from outside itself.

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Verb

suture (third-person singular simple present sutures, present participle suturing, simple past and past participle sutured)

  1. (transitive, also figurative) To sew up or join by means of a suture.

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Anagrams

  • uterus

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sy.tyʁ/

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin sūtūra (“suture”). Compare couture.

Noun

suture f (plural sutures)

  1. (surgery) suture; stitch
Derived terms
  • point de suture

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

suture

  1. inflection of suturer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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

Anagrams

  • tueurs, utérus

Galician

Verb

suture

  1. inflection of suturar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Italian

Noun

suture f

  1. plural of sutura

Middle English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sūtūra.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /siu̯ˈtiu̯r(ə)/, /ˈsiu̯tiu̯r(ə)/

Noun

suture (plural suturez)

  1. A suture; a seam made in surgical operations:
  2. (rare, anatomy) A slight bodily indentation.

Descendants

  • English: suture

References

  • “sūtūre, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-17.

Portuguese

Verb

suture

  1. inflection of suturar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

suture

  1. inflection of suturar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Source: wiktionary.org