QUINO is valid in Collins, not in North America — 14 points
It depends on the list you play by. QUINO 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 QUINO?
| 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: 48 / 100
Our own measure of how useful QUINO is to know. It scores 14 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 5.6% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for QUINO
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How QUINO scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in QUINO, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| q | 1 | 1 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 43,569.
What does QUINO mean in Scrabble?
noun
informal
A game of chance in which numbered balls or tickets are drawn, the same game more often called keno.
Quino is simply another name for keno, a lottery-style gambling game in which players mark numbers on a card and win according to how many match numbers drawn at random. The two names come from the same family of games that spread through gambling halls in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and quino appears far less often than keno in everyday speech. Most people who play the game know it only by its more common name.
How QUINO is used
Rare; occurs mainly as an alternative name for keno in wordlists and older gambling terminology rather than in everyday speech.
- The old casino still advertised a quino game on a hand-painted sign.
- He won a small prize the one time he tried quino.
- The rules of quino matched those of keno almost exactly.
- A quino card had eighty numbers to choose from.
- Few younger gamblers had even heard the word quino before.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of QUINO and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of QUINO
The 5 tiles of QUINO in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with QUINO
17 longer words begin with QUINO.
Words with QUINO inside
22 words contain QUINO in the middle. Words that start with QUINO are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in QUINO
Common questions about QUINO
- Is QUINO valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and QUINO is not in it.
- How many points is QUINO worth?
- QUINO is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 16 points in Words with Friends.
- What does QUINO mean?
- A game of chance in which numbered balls or tickets are drawn, the same game more often called keno.
- What letters can be added to QUINO?
- QUINO takes 3 hooks: 0 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of QUINO:
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