leptotene
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 11
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 9
Definition of leptotene
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- The first part of the prophase of meiosis, characterized by threadlike chromosomes
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Etymology
From French leptotène, corresponding to lepto- (“thin”) + -tene (“ribbon”). Coined by Hans von De Winiwarter in 1900 and in English by Edmund B. Wilson in 1912.
Words you can make from leptotene
94 playable · top: TENTPOLE (10 pts)
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2 words6-letter words
8 words5-letter words
11 words4-letter words
33 words- EPEE 6 pts
- LEPT 6 pts
- LOPE 6 pts
- NEEP 6 pts
- NOPE 6 pts
- OPEN 6 pts
- PEEL 6 pts
- PEEN 6 pts
- PELE 6 pts
- PELT 6 pts
- PENT 6 pts
- PEON 6 pts
- PLOT 6 pts
- POET 6 pts
- POLE 6 pts
- PONE 6 pts
- TOPE 6 pts
- ENOL 4 pts
- LEET 4 pts
- LENO 4 pts
- LENT 4 pts
- LONE 4 pts
- NETT 4 pts
- NOEL 4 pts
- NOTE 4 pts
- TEEL 4 pts
- TEEN 4 pts
- TELE 4 pts
- TENT 4 pts
- TOLE 4 pts
- TOLT 4 pts
- TONE 4 pts
- TOTE 4 pts
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26 words2-letter words
13 wordsHooks
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