QANAT is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. QANAT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept QANAT?
| 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 | Valid |
Word power: 43 / 100
Our own measure of how useful QANAT is to know. It scores 14 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for QANAT
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
qanatsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How QANAT scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in QANAT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| q | 1 | 1 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 58,092.
What stands out about QANAT
- QANAT 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.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does QANAT mean in Scrabble?
noun
technicalhistorical
An underground tunnel or channel that carries water by gravity from an aquifer to fields or settlements in arid regions.
A qanat is dug as a gently sloping tunnel from a water-bearing layer of rock down to the surface, allowing water to flow without pumps or evaporation loss along the way. Vertical shafts are sunk at intervals along the route to remove excavated soil and to allow access for maintenance. The technique developed in ancient Persia and later spread across the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia, where it still irrigates farmland in dry climates. Because a qanat relies purely on gravity, it can supply water for centuries with only periodic clearing of debris.
How QANAT is used
Technical and historical; used in writing about irrigation, ancient engineering and water management in arid regions.
- The village still drew its drinking water from an ancient qanat.
- Archaeologists mapped the qanat by following its line of surface shafts.
- Building a qanat required careful surveying of the slope over many kilometres.
- The oasis owed its farmland to a qanat carved centuries earlier.
- Engineers studied the qanat as an early example of gravity-fed irrigation.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of QANAT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with QANAT
1 longer words begin with QANAT.
Shorter words from the letters in QANAT
Common questions about QANAT
- Is QANAT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts QANAT, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is QANAT worth?
- QANAT is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does QANAT mean?
- An underground tunnel or channel that carries water by gravity from an aquifer to fields or settlements in arid regions.
- What letters can be added to QANAT?
- QANAT takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of QANAT:
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