Yes, translating is a Scrabble word!

Verb

1. Restate (words) from one language into another language
2. Change from one form or medium into another
3. Make sense of a language
4. Bring to a certain spiritual state
5. Change the position of (figures or bodies) in space without rotation
6. Be equivalent in effect
7. Be translatable, or be translatable in a certain way
8. Subject to movement in which every part of the body moves parallel to and the same distance as every other point on the body
9. Express, as in simple and less technical language
10. Determine the amino-acid sequence of a protein during its synthesis by using information on the messenger RNA