QUARK is a valid Scrabble word — 18 points
Yes. QUARK is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 18 points in Scrabble and 19 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept QUARK?
| 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: 48 / 100
Our own measure of how useful QUARK is to know. It scores 18 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for QUARK
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How QUARK scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in QUARK, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| q | 1 | 1 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 348,553.
What does QUARK mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
An elementary particle that combines with others to form protons, neutrons and related particles, and is never observed alone.
A quark carries a fractional electric charge and comes in six types physicists call flavors, and no experiment has ever isolated a single quark outside the larger particle it helps make up. The same word also names a soft, fresh, unripened cheese eaten in parts of Central and Eastern Europe, a completely separate borrowing from German.
How QUARK is used
Technical; the physics sense belongs to particle physics, while the cheese sense is used in cooking and food writing.
- Physicists needed powerful accelerators before they could confirm the existence of the quark.
- A proton is made up of three quarks bound tightly together.
- The chef spread a thick layer of quark over the base of the cheesecake.
- No detector has ever captured a single free quark outside a larger particle.
- The recipe calls for smooth quark instead of cream cheese.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of QUARK and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with QUARK
1 longer words begin with QUARK.
Words ending in QUARK
4 words end in QUARK. Useful as a back hook: play QUARK onto a word already on the board.
Words with QUARK inside
4 words contain QUARK in the middle. Words that start with QUARK are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in QUARK
Common questions about QUARK
- Is QUARK valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts QUARK, where it scores 19 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is QUARK worth?
- QUARK is worth 18 points in Scrabble and 19 points in Words with Friends.
- What does QUARK mean?
- An elementary particle that combines with others to form protons, neutrons and related particles, and is never observed alone.
- What letters can be added to QUARK?
- QUARK takes 2 hooks: 1 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of QUARK:
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