QUIM is valid in Collins, not in North America — 15 points
It depends on the list you play by. QUIM 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 15 points. Words with Friends does accept it.
Which word lists accept QUIM?
| 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 | Valid |
Word power: 46 / 100
Our own measure of how useful QUIM is to know. It scores 15 from 4 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for QUIM
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
quimsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How QUIM scores
Face value of the 4 tiles in QUIM, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| q | 1 | 1 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| m | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 4 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 54,461.
What does QUIM mean in Scrabble?
noun
offensiveBritish
A vulgar noun naming the female genitals as a body part, ordinarily used about one woman at a time.
Quim is recorded from the seventeenth century and has been vulgar for the whole of that time; it belongs to bawdy verse, to Victorian pornography and to insult, and to nothing else. Quim survives in print mainly in glossaries and in footnotes to older verse: it left ordinary speech long ago, and most people who meet the word today meet it on a page rather than in a conversation.
How QUIM is used
Offensive in every register, and quim is not used neutrally in any variety of English. Described here, not recommended.
- The editor cut quim from the manuscript without asking the author.
- A footnote explains that quim was already coarse when the poem was written.
- The dictionary marks quim as vulgar and gives one citation from 1735.
- He looked quim up after an argument about what the word lists allow.
- Broadcasters treat quim as unairable and always have.
- The glossary lists quim among words the museum chose not to display.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of QUIM and 6 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with QUIM
1 longer words begin with QUIM.
Words with QUIM inside
7 words contain QUIM in the middle. Words that start with QUIM are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in QUIM
Common questions about QUIM
- Is QUIM valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts QUIM, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is QUIM worth?
- QUIM is worth 15 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does QUIM mean?
- A vulgar noun naming the female genitals as a body part, ordinarily used about one woman at a time.
- What letters can be added to QUIM?
- QUIM takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 4 letters of QUIM:
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