QUAIR is valid in Collins, not in North America — 14 points
It depends on the list you play by. QUAIR is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 14 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept QUAIR?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Not listed |
Word power: 42 / 100
Our own measure of how useful QUAIR is to know. It scores 14 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for QUAIR
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
quairsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How QUAIR scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in QUAIR, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| q | 1 | 1 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 38,728.
What stands out about QUAIR
- QUAIR 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 QUAIR mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaicScots
An archaic Scots word for a book, especially a collection of verse or a manuscript.
Quair is the older form that also gave English its word quire, a set of folded sheets bound or sewn together; before printing turned books into stacks of identical copies, a quair was simply the pages a writer had gathered and written on. The word survives chiefly through one famous use, The Kingis Quair, a fifteenth-century poem attributed to a Scottish king, and it is met almost nowhere outside quotations of older Scots writing.
How QUAIR is used
Archaic and literary; found in Older Scots texts and in the titles of old poems rather than in ordinary speech.
- The scribe bound the loose pages into a single quair before the winter journey.
- Scholars still argue over who wrote the quair known as The Kingis Quair.
- A quair of this size would have taken a scribe several months to copy by hand.
- The poet called his own collected verses a quair, in the old fashion.
- Only a handful of copies of the quair survived the fire that destroyed the abbey library.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of QUAIR and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with QUAIR
1 longer words begin with QUAIR.
Words with QUAIR inside
2 words contain QUAIR in the middle. Words that start with QUAIR are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in QUAIR
Common questions about QUAIR
- Is QUAIR valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and QUAIR is not in it.
- How many points is QUAIR worth?
- QUAIR is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does QUAIR mean?
- An archaic Scots word for a book, especially a collection of verse or a manuscript.
- What letters can be added to QUAIR?
- QUAIR takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of QUAIR:
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