QUASAR is a valid Scrabble word — 15 points
Yes. QUASAR is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 15 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept QUASAR?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful QUASAR is to know. It scores 15 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for QUASAR
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
quasarsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How QUASAR scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in QUASAR, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| q | 1 | 1 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| a | 2 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 344,923.
What does QUASAR mean in Scrabble?
noun
technical
An extremely distant and luminous celestial object that gives out enormous amounts of energy.
A quasar is powered by matter falling into a giant black hole at the heart of a young galaxy. Because its light has travelled for billions of years, studying a quasar means looking far back in time. In a small telescope it looks like an ordinary faint star.
How QUASAR is used
Used in astronomy and popular science writing about the early universe.
- Astronomers measured the light of a quasar billions of years old.
- The quasar outshines the whole galaxy that contains it.
- Each quasar is a clue about how galaxies first formed.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of QUASAR and 3 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with QUASAR
1 longer words begin with QUASAR.
Shorter words from the letters in QUASAR
Common questions about QUASAR
- Is QUASAR valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts QUASAR, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is QUASAR worth?
- QUASAR is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does QUASAR mean?
- An extremely distant and luminous celestial object that gives out enormous amounts of energy.
- What letters can be added to QUASAR?
- QUASAR takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of QUASAR:
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