QUENA is valid in Collins, not in North America — 14 points
It depends on the list you play by. QUENA 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 14 points. Words with Friends does not accept it either.
Which word lists accept QUENA?
| 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: 44 / 100
Our own measure of how useful QUENA 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 QUENA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
quenasChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How QUENA scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in QUENA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| q | 1 | 1 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 29,046.
What does QUENA mean in Scrabble?
noun
music
An end-blown bamboo or cane flute traditional to the Andes region of South America.
The quena has no mouthpiece; a player blows directly across a notch cut into one end, a technique closer to a recorder held sideways than to a Western concert flute. It developed among the Quechua and Aymara peoples of the Andes long before European contact and remains a central instrument of Andean folk music, heard in ensembles alongside panpipes and small guitars. Its breathy, reedy tone is one of the most recognizable sounds of South American highland music.
How QUENA is used
Used mainly when writing about South American folk music; often paired with the panpipe in descriptions of Andean ensembles.
- The busker played a quena on the street corner, its thin sound carrying over the traffic.
- A quena carved from condor bone was found among the burial goods.
- She learned to play the quena from her grandfather, who had made his own from local cane.
- The band opened with a slow quena melody before the drums came in.
- Tourists in the market stalls could buy a cheap quena made of plastic.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of QUENA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of QUENA
The 5 tiles of QUENA in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with QUENA
1 longer words begin with QUENA.
Shorter words from the letters in QUENA
Common questions about QUENA
- Is QUENA valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and QUENA is not in it.
- How many points is QUENA worth?
- QUENA is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does QUENA mean?
- An end-blown bamboo or cane flute traditional to the Andes region of South America.
- What letters can be added to QUENA?
- QUENA takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of QUENA:
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