QUEY is a valid Scrabble word — 16 points
Yes. QUEY is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 16 points in Scrabble and 16 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept QUEY?
| 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: 53 / 100
Our own measure of how useful QUEY is to know. It scores 16 from 4 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.7% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for QUEY
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How QUEY scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in QUEY, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| q | 1 | 1 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| y | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 40,846.
What stands out about QUEY
- QUEY scores 16 points, more than twice the average for a 4-letter word (7.7).
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does QUEY mean in Scrabble?
noun
Scots
A young cow that has not yet calved.
Quey is Scots and northern English and came from Old Norse, like most of the farming vocabulary of that region. It names the same animal that standard English calls a heifer.
How QUEY is used
Countable: a quey, two queys. Scots and northern.
- A quey is what the south calls a heifer.
- The word quey came into Scots from Old Norse.
- Two queys sold at market as one lot.
- A quey becomes a cow after the first calf.
- Farming words like quey came with the Norse.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of QUEY and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with QUEY
5 longer words begin with QUEY.
Words ending in QUEY
5 words end in QUEY. Useful as a back hook: play QUEY onto a word already on the board.
Words with QUEY inside
3 words contain QUEY in the middle. Words that start with QUEY are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in QUEY
Common questions about QUEY
- Is QUEY valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts QUEY, where it scores 16 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is QUEY worth?
- QUEY is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does QUEY mean?
- A young cow that has not yet calved.
- What letters can be added to QUEY?
- QUEY takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of QUEY:
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