QAJAQ is a valid Scrabble word, but not in Words with Friends — 30 points
Yes for Scrabble. QAJAQ is in Collins and in the North American lists, so it stands in any Scrabble game. Words with Friends keeps a separate list and does not accept it.
Which word lists accept QAJAQ?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 49 / 100
Our own measure of how useful QAJAQ is to know. It scores 30 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for QAJAQ
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
qajaqsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How QAJAQ scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in QAJAQ, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| q | 2 | 1 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| j | 1 | 1 |
The Scrabble bag does not hold enough of these letters. QAJAQ needs 1 blank tile.
What stands out about QAJAQ
- Two Qs in one word: QAJAQ doubles the highest-value tile in the bag.
- QAJAQ takes a Q without a U — one of only 93 words in our lists that do. That is the cheapest way to get rid of the ten-point tile.
- QAJAQ is a palindrome: it reads the same in both directions, so it plays the same way whichever end you build from.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does QAJAQ mean in Scrabble?
noun
A small, narrow boat with a covered deck, paddled with a double-bladed oar; an Inuit spelling of kayak.
Qajaq is the word the Inuit peoples of the Arctic use for the light skin-covered boat that English borrowed as kayak. The Inuit spelling qajaq is now also accepted as an alternative English spelling of the same word.
How QAJAQ is used
Rare in general writing; used mainly where the Inuit spelling itself is deliberately preserved.
- He paddled the qajaq along the icy shoreline.
- The museum displayed a traditional qajaq made of sealskin.
- Her grandfather taught her to build a qajaq by hand.
- The race featured qajaq paddlers from several Arctic communities.
- A single hunter can carry a qajaq over the ice.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of QAJAQ and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with QAJAQ
1 longer words begin with QAJAQ.
Shorter words from the letters in QAJAQ
Common questions about QAJAQ
- Is QAJAQ valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and QAJAQ is not in it.
- How many points is QAJAQ worth?
- QAJAQ is worth 30 points in Scrabble and 32 points in Words with Friends.
- What does QAJAQ mean?
- A small, narrow boat with a covered deck, paddled with a double-bladed oar; an Inuit spelling of kayak.
- What letters can be added to QAJAQ?
- QAJAQ takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of QAJAQ:
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