QUAIL is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. QUAIL is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept QUAIL?
| 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: 44 / 100
Our own measure of how useful QUAIL is to know. It scores 14 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 5.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for QUAIL
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How QUAIL scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in QUAIL, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| q | 1 | 1 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 58,092.
What stands out about QUAIL
- QUAIL runs three vowels in a row, which almost no English word does.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does QUAIL mean in Scrabble?
verb
literary
To lose courage or shrink back in fear.
To quail is to let one's nerve fail at a moment of danger or threat, causing a person to hesitate or draw back instead of acting. Writers often use quail to describe a brief, visible loss of courage rather than lasting cowardice, as when someone quails before an angry stare or a sudden threat. The word carries a slightly old-fashioned, literary tone and appears more often in narrative prose than in ordinary conversation. Even brave characters in fiction are sometimes said to quail for just a moment before recovering their courage.
How QUAIL is used
Literary; used in narrative writing to describe a sudden loss of nerve rather than in casual speech.
- He did not quail even when the crowd turned against him.
- Her voice made the youngest recruits quail.
- The soldiers began to quail as the enemy line advanced.
- She refused to quail before the committee's harsh questions.
- His glare was enough to make the boy quail and apologise.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of QUAIL and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with QUAIL
4 longer words begin with QUAIL.
Words ending in QUAIL
1 words end in QUAIL. Useful as a back hook: play QUAIL onto a word already on the board.
Words with QUAIL inside
6 words contain QUAIL in the middle. Words that start with QUAIL are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in QUAIL
Common questions about QUAIL
- Is QUAIL valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts QUAIL, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is QUAIL worth?
- QUAIL is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does QUAIL mean?
- To lose courage or shrink back in fear.
- What letters can be added to QUAIL?
- QUAIL takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of QUAIL:
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