QUEAN is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. QUEAN is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept QUEAN?
| 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: 44 / 100
Our own measure of how useful QUEAN is to know. It scores 14 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for QUEAN
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
queansChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How QUEAN scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in QUEAN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| q | 1 | 1 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 29,046.
What stands out about QUEAN
- QUEAN 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 QUEAN mean in Scrabble?
noun
archaichistorical
An impudent or badly behaved young woman, or, in earlier historical use, a prostitute.
Quean was once an ordinary English word for a young woman, but by the sixteenth century it had narrowed to mean a bold, ill-mannered or disreputable one, and later a prostitute. Writers of the period used quean to insult a woman's character rather than merely to name her age or unmarried status. In Scots and northern English dialect the word survived longer with the milder sense of a lively or forward young woman. Today quean appears almost only in historical fiction, older texts and dialect glossaries rather than in ordinary speech.
How QUEAN is used
Archaic and historical; found in older English texts and dialect writing rather than in current speech.
- The play calls her a shameless quean for mocking the priest.
- Old ballads use quean where a modern poem would say girl.
- The glossary explained quean as a Scots word for a bold young woman.
- He scolded the quean for her sharp tongue in the market.
- Historians noted how quean shifted in meaning over three centuries.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of QUEAN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of QUEAN
The 5 tiles of QUEAN in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with QUEAN
1 longer words begin with QUEAN.
Words ending in QUEAN
1 words end in QUEAN. Useful as a back hook: play QUEAN onto a word already on the board.
Words with QUEAN inside
1 words contain QUEAN in the middle. Words that start with QUEAN are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in QUEAN
Common questions about QUEAN
- Is QUEAN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts QUEAN, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is QUEAN worth?
- QUEAN is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does QUEAN mean?
- An impudent or badly behaved young woman, or, in earlier historical use, a prostitute.
- What letters can be added to QUEAN?
- QUEAN takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of QUEAN:
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