QUICKS is a valid Scrabble word — 21 points
Yes. QUICKS is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 21 points in Scrabble and 23 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept QUICKS?
| 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: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful QUICKS is to know. It scores 21 from 6 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 3.5% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for QUICKS
No single letter turns QUICKS into another word.
How QUICKS scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in QUICKS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| q | 1 | 1 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| c | 1 | 2 |
| k | 1 | 1 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 4,139 thousand.
What stands out about QUICKS
- QUICKS scores 21 points, more than twice the average for a 6-letter word (10.5).
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does QUICKS mean in Scrabble?
noun
botany
Living hedge plants, especially young hawthorn, set out and grown together to form a hedge; a plural form of quick.
Quicks are the young, still-growing shrubs planted close together along a boundary, which knit into a dense hedge as they mature, unlike a dead fence of cut wood. The word comes from the same root as quickset, describing planting stock that is alive rather than lifeless timber.
How QUICKS is used
An old rural and horticultural term for hedge plants.
- Rows of young quicks lined the new field boundary.
- The gardener planted quicks along the lane to form a hedge.
- Sheep nibbled at the quicks before the fence was finished.
- It takes years for quicks to grow into a solid hedge.
- The estate ordered fresh quicks to replace the dying hedge.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of QUICKS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with QUICKS
17 longer words begin with QUICKS.
Shorter words from the letters in QUICKS
Common questions about QUICKS
- Is QUICKS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts QUICKS, where it scores 23 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is QUICKS worth?
- QUICKS is worth 21 points in Scrabble and 23 points in Words with Friends.
- What does QUICKS mean?
- Living hedge plants, especially young hawthorn, set out and grown together to form a hedge; a plural form of quick.
- What letters can be added to QUICKS?
- No single letter can be added to QUICKS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of QUICKS:
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