QUEER is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. QUEER is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept QUEER?
| 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: 45 / 100
Our own measure of how useful QUEER is to know. It scores 14 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for QUEER
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
queersChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How QUEER scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in QUEER, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| q | 1 | 1 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| e | 2 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 47,530.
What stands out about QUEER
- QUEER 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 QUEER mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Strange, odd, or different from what is usual or expected.
Something described as queer strikes people as not quite normal, whether it is a queer feeling, a queer smell, or a queer way of behaving, and the word can suggest mild unease as easily as gentle amusement. Since the late twentieth century queer has also become a standard, neutral umbrella term chosen within the LGBTQ+ community to describe identities and relationships that fall outside a strictly heterosexual pattern, and it appears in serious academic writing under headings such as queer theory. Which sense is meant is almost always clear from context, since a queer old house and a queer film festival are making very different claims. In everyday writing the older sense, meaning simply strange or odd, remains the more common of the two.
How QUEER is used
Standard English for "strange"; also a widely used, neutral umbrella term chosen within the LGBTQ+ community, as in queer theory or a queer film festival.
- There was a queer smell coming from the cellar that no one could explain.
- He gave her a queer look when she mentioned the missing money.
- The old house had a queer, unsettled feeling about it after dark.
- The conference brought together scholars working in queer theory.
- She has described herself as queer since she was a teenager.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of QUEER and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with QUEER
13 longer words begin with QUEER.
Words ending in QUEER
1 words end in QUEER. Useful as a back hook: play QUEER onto a word already on the board.
Words with QUEER inside
1 words contain QUEER in the middle. Words that start with QUEER are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in QUEER
Common questions about QUEER
- Is QUEER valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts QUEER, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is QUEER worth?
- QUEER is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does QUEER mean?
- Strange, odd, or different from what is usual or expected.
- What letters can be added to QUEER?
- QUEER takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of QUEER:
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