curie
/kjʊri/
noun
5 letters2 syllables7 points in Scrabble®9 points in WWF®
DEFINITIONS3
NOUN
1
A unit of radioactivity equal to the amount of a radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of 37,000,000,000 disintegrations per second.
2
French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906).
3
French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes; one (with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and polonium (1867-1934).
WORD FORMS
Starts withC
Ends withE
GAME SCORES
Scrabble®7 points
Words With Friends®9 points
Double word14 points
Triple word21 points
GOOD TO KNOW
Pig Latinuriecay
Starts & ends withC … E
Syllablescu · rie
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SAME LETTERS, DIFFERENT WORDS
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