QUINA is valid in Collins, not in North America — 14 points
It depends on the list you play by. QUINA 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 QUINA?
| 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: 42 / 100
Our own measure of how useful QUINA 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 QUINA
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
quinasChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How QUINA scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in QUINA, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| q | 1 | 1 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 38,728.
What does QUINA mean in Scrabble?
noun
botanymedical
Cinchona bark, or the South American tree that produces it, the original source of quinine.
Quina comes from Quechua, the language of the Andes, where the bark of the cinchona tree was used to treat fever long before Europeans learned of it. Ground quina bark became the first effective treatment for malaria, and the alkaloid quinine, still used today, was later extracted from it directly. The word survives in English mainly in older medical and botanical writing rather than in ordinary speech.
How QUINA is used
Historical and technical; found in older accounts of tropical medicine and in botanical descriptions of the cinchona tree.
- Traders carried sacks of quina bark from the Andes to Europe.
- The bitter taste of quina made it a hard medicine to give to children.
- Early settlers boiled quina bark into a tea to fight fever.
- Botanists later classified the tree that yields quina as a species of cinchona.
- Quinine, extracted from quina, replaced the raw bark once chemists learned to purify it.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of QUINA and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with QUINA
9 longer words begin with QUINA.
Words ending in QUINA
2 words end in QUINA. Useful as a back hook: play QUINA onto a word already on the board.
Words with QUINA inside
21 words contain QUINA in the middle. Words that start with QUINA are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in QUINA
Common questions about QUINA
- Is QUINA valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and QUINA is not in it.
- How many points is QUINA worth?
- QUINA is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does QUINA mean?
- Cinchona bark, or the South American tree that produces it, the original source of quinine.
- What letters can be added to QUINA?
- QUINA takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of QUINA:
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