QUAYD is valid in Collins, not in North America — 18 points
It depends on the list you play by. QUAYD 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 18 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept QUAYD?
| 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 QUAYD is to know. It scores 18 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for QUAYD
No single letter turns QUAYD into another word.
How QUAYD scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in QUAYD, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| q | 1 | 1 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 261,415.
What does QUAYD mean in Scrabble?
adjective
archaicliterary
Overcome by fear and subdued in spirit; daunted.
A quayd person or creature has had their courage broken, usually by an intimidating opponent or an overwhelming show of force, and can no longer resist or answer back. The word appears in the poetry of Edmund Spenser and belongs to the same old word family as quail, meaning to lose courage, rather than to the bird or the vegetable of that name.
How QUAYD is used
Archaic and literary; met almost exclusively in older poetry and its modern quotation.
- The quayd knight could no longer lift his sword against the giant.
- Spenser describes the quayd dragon cowering before the hero's blade.
- Once proud, the quayd army offered no more resistance.
- Her quayd spirit found no words to answer the accusation.
- The poem shows the quayd villain begging for mercy at last.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of QUAYD and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in QUAYD
Common questions about QUAYD
- Is QUAYD valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and QUAYD is not in it.
- How many points is QUAYD worth?
- QUAYD is worth 18 points in Scrabble and 18 points in Words with Friends.
- What does QUAYD mean?
- Overcome by fear and subdued in spirit; daunted.
- What letters can be added to QUAYD?
- No single letter can be added to QUAYD to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of QUAYD:
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