zygotene
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 21
- Words With Friends
- 22
- Letters
- 8
Definition of zygotene
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- The intimate pairing of homologous chromosomes during the synaptic stage of meiosis
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Etymology
From French zygotène, corresponding to zygo- (“union, zygosis”, from Ancient Greek ζυγόν (zugón, “junction, yoke”)) + -tene (“filament”, from ταινία (tainía, “band, fillet”)), equivalent to zygote + -tene. Coined by Victor Grégoire in 1907 and in English by Edmund B. Wilson in 1912.
Words you can make from zygotene
67 playable · top: ZYGOTE (19 pts)
Best play zygote 19 points5-letter words
6 words4-letter words
18 words3-letter words
30 words- YEZ 15 pts
- ZEE 12 pts
- ZEN 12 pts
- GEY 7 pts
- GOY 7 pts
- EYE 6 pts
- TOY 6 pts
- TYE 6 pts
- YEN 6 pts
- YET 6 pts
- YON 6 pts
- EGO 4 pts
- ENG 4 pts
- GEE 4 pts
- GEN 4 pts
- GET 4 pts
- GOT 4 pts
- NEG 4 pts
- NOG 4 pts
- TEG 4 pts
- TOG 4 pts
- EON 3 pts
- NEE 3 pts
- NET 3 pts
- NOT 3 pts
- ONE 3 pts
- TEE 3 pts
- TEN 3 pts
- TOE 3 pts
- TON 3 pts
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