QUIPU is a valid Scrabble word — 16 points
Yes. QUIPU is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 16 points in Scrabble and 19 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept QUIPU?
| 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: 41 / 100
Our own measure of how useful QUIPU is to know. It scores 16 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for QUIPU
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
quipusChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How QUIPU scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in QUIPU, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| q | 1 | 1 |
| u | 2 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| p | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 697,107.
What does QUIPU mean in Scrabble?
noun
historical
A device made of knotted cords, used by the Inca and other Andean peoples to record numbers and information.
A quipu consists of a main cord from which many coloured, knotted strings hang, with the position, colour and type of each knot encoding numerical and possibly narrative information. Inca administrators used quipus to track census figures, tribute, and stores across their empire without a written script. Modern researchers continue to study surviving quipus, and much of their fuller meaning is still not fully deciphered.
How QUIPU is used
A historical and archaeological term for the Andean knot-recording system, rarely used outside that context.
- The museum displayed a well-preserved quipu from Peru.
- Historians debate how much a single quipu could record.
- The quipu's knots stood for specific quantities of grain.
- Archaeologists found a bundle of quipus in the tomb.
- Modern scholars are still learning to read an old quipu.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of QUIPU and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with QUIPU
1 longer words begin with QUIPU.
Shorter words from the letters in QUIPU
Common questions about QUIPU
- Is QUIPU valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts QUIPU, where it scores 19 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is QUIPU worth?
- QUIPU is worth 16 points in Scrabble and 19 points in Words with Friends.
- What does QUIPU mean?
- A device made of knotted cords, used by the Inca and other Andean peoples to record numbers and information.
- What letters can be added to QUIPU?
- QUIPU takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of QUIPU:
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