QUERN is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. QUERN 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 QUERN?
| 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: 42 / 100
Our own measure of how useful QUERN is to know. It scores 14 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 5.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for QUERN
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
quernsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How QUERN scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in QUERN, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| q | 1 | 1 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 43,569.
What does QUERN mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A simple hand mill of two stone discs, used before mechanical mills to grind grain into flour.
A quern consists of a flat lower stone and a rotating upper stone, between which grain is crushed and ground as the top stone is turned by hand. The device was used across many early societies before water and wind mills took over the heavier work of milling flour. Archaeologists often find fragments of a quern at ancient settlement sites, since the worn stones survive far better than wooden tools. The word now belongs mainly to archaeology and historical writing about early farming life.
How QUERN is used
Historical and archaeological; used in writing about early farming, milling and household tools of the past.
- The dig uncovered a broken quern beside the old hearth.
- Women once spent hours each day turning a quern to make flour.
- The museum displayed a quern found near the Roman fort.
- Grinding grain with a quern was slow, tiring work.
- Archaeologists dated the settlement partly by the style of its quern.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of QUERN and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with QUERN
3 longer words begin with QUERN.
Shorter words from the letters in QUERN
Common questions about QUERN
- Is QUERN valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts QUERN, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is QUERN worth?
- QUERN is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does QUERN mean?
- A simple hand mill of two stone discs, used before mechanical mills to grind grain into flour.
- What letters can be added to QUERN?
- QUERN takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of QUERN:
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