quarantine is a valid English word

Scrabble validity: valid ( international - Sowpods, US - Twl06 )
iScramble validity: valid
QuickWords validity: valid

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Meanings

Noun (COUNTABLE)

A period of 40 days, particularly
A period, instance, or state of isolation from the general public or from native livestock and flora enacted to prevent the spread of any contagious disease.
• The tourists were put in quarantine to ensure none of them would be able to spread the plague.
(figurative) A similar period, instance, or state of rigidly enforced or self-enforced detention or isolation.

Verb

(transitive) To place into isolation to prevent the spread of any contagious disease.
• Venice began quarantining incoming ships for 40 days in 1448 to prevent further outbreaks of bubonic plague.
(intransitive) To enter or stay in quarantine, particularly to self-quarantine to avoid an epidemic disease.
• International travelers must quarantine themselves at their own expense in a designated hotel for 14 days upon arrival.
(intransitive obsolete) To impose a quarantine, to establish quarantine regulations.

Proper noun

(Christainity obsolete) : the Mount of Temptation where Jesus Christ supposedly fasted for 40 days, Jebel Quruntul near Jericho.

quarantine is a Scrabble valid word

• International English (Sowpods) - The word is valid in Scrabble ✓
• US English (TWL06) - The word is valid in Scrabble ✓
• 19 points

quarantine is an iScramble valid word

• The word is valid in iScramble ✓
• 55 points

quarantine is an QuickWords valid word

• The word is valid in QuickWords ✓
• 55 points

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Same letters words (Anagrams)

• none

Same letters plus one

• QUARANTINED
• QUARANTINEE
• QUARANTINER
• QUARANTINES

Same letters minus one

• QUINTANAR