Words with the Letter Q for Scrabble

If you play Scrabble sometimes, you might want to know words with the letter Q. Q and Z have the highest points available, which is 10, so using them can rack up the points. Let’s look at the game of Scrabble and sources for lists of words that contain the letter Q.

Words with the Letter Q 

Words with Q and U

ScrabblePages.com has a list of words with the letter Q for Scrabble. They are arranged by the letter which immediately follows the Q. Here are several which have a Q followed by a U:

• Aquifer
• Banquet
• Croquet
• Diquat
• Equip
• Fique
• Inquire
• Jonquil
• Kumquat
• Loquat
• Marquis
• Oblique
• Pique
• Quasi
• Quells
• Quiver
• Quorum
• Quirt
• Quokka
• Qursh
• Risque
• Squib
• Torque
• Unique
• Vaquero
• Yanqui

Words with a Q but No U

There are only 4 tiles with the letter U in a Scrabble game; so, it can be very helpful to know the words which can be formed with a Q which don't require the use of the letter U. According to the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, these words are:

• Faqor or faqirs
• Mbaqanga or mbaqangas
• Qabala, qabalah or qabalas
• Qadi or qadis
• Qaid or qaids
• Qanat or qanats
• Qat or qats
• Qi or qis
• Qindar, qindarka or qindars
• Qintar or qintars
• Qiviut or qiviuts
• Qoph or qophs
• Qwerty or qwertys
• Sheqel or sheqalim
• Tranq or tranqs

Other Word List References

Homepage.NTL World.com has lists of words with the letter Q alone and QU. There are also lists of words according to number of letters in the word, words containing one or more letters, and words with all vowels or all consonants.

Another interesting option on this site is a list of the highest scoring Scrabble words. They show words between 7 and 79 points, sorted by number of letters.

Scrabble: The Game

Scrabble is played with two to four players, who each draw seven letters at a time, or the number of letters to make a total of seven. They make a crossword puzzle, and every player must connect to at least one word on the board.

The board is a grid with 15 squares on each side. Some of the squares are bonus squares and allow the letter to be doubled or tripled, or the whole word to be doubled or tripled. The starting square is a double word square.

Each game comes with 100 tiles, including two blanks that have no point value, and 98 that have letters on them with their respective points written on them.  The more a letter is used in the English language, the lower its points, and the more tiles that bear that letter. The number of letters and point values is as follows:

The number of letters in a Scrabble game is: A-9, B-2, C-2, D-4, E-12, F-2, G-3, H-2, I-9, J-1, K-1, L-4, M-2, N-6, O-8, P-2, Q-1, R-6, S-4, T-6, U-4, V-2, W-2, X-1, Y-2, Z-1.

The point values are:

• 1 - A, E, I, O, U, L, N, R, S, T
• 2 - D, G
• 3 - B, C, M, P
• 4 - F, H, V, W, Y
• 5 - K
• 8 - J, X
• 10 - Q, Z

Scrabble was originally called Criss-crossword and was invented by Alfred Mosher Butts in 1938. He could not sell it to a game manufacturer, but sold the rights to James Brunot in 1948 for a share of the profits. It eventually was bought by Hasbro, and has sold over 150 million games world-wide. It was a show on TV for a while and there are several PC and video game versions. It can also be played online.