QUAY is a valid Scrabble word — 16 points
Yes. QUAY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 16 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept QUAY?
| 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: 51 / 100
Our own measure of how useful QUAY is to know. It scores 16 from 4 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for QUAY
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How QUAY scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in QUAY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| q | 1 | 1 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 54,461.
What stands out about QUAY
- QUAY scores 16 points, more than twice the average for a 4-letter word (7.7).
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does QUAY mean in Scrabble?
noun
nautical
A landing place for loading and unloading ships.
Quay is pronounced key, which catches out every reader who meets it in print before hearing it aloud. The spelling was altered in the seventeenth century to look more French, and the pronunciation never followed.
How QUAY is used
Countable: a quay, two quays. Pronounced key.
- The quay is empty except for two bollards.
- The word quay is pronounced key.
- Two quays either side of the harbour mouth.
- The spelling of quay was changed to look French.
- A quay is stone and a jetty need not be.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of QUAY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with QUAY
7 longer words begin with QUAY.
Shorter words from the letters in QUAY
Common questions about QUAY
- Is QUAY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts QUAY, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is QUAY worth?
- QUAY is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does QUAY mean?
- A landing place for loading and unloading ships.
- What letters can be added to QUAY?
- QUAY takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of QUAY:
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