QUIRE is a valid Scrabble word — 14 points
Yes. QUIRE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 14 points in Scrabble and 15 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept QUIRE?
| 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: 50 / 100
Our own measure of how useful QUIRE is to know. It scores 14 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 6.4% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for QUIRE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How QUIRE scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in QUIRE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| q | 1 | 1 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 29,046.
What does QUIRE mean in Scrabble?
noun
printing
A set of sheets of paper, traditionally twenty-four, folded or gathered together as a unit of measure.
A quire was originally a small booklet of folded parchment sheets, and the word later settled into a standard unit in the paper trade equal to one twentieth of a ream. Printers and stationers used quires to count and price paper before packaging shifted toward reams and metric measures. The term survives in printing, bookbinding, and the history of manuscript production, where scribes gathered quires of parchment before binding them into a book. Even where the exact count varies by tradition, a quire always means a fixed bundle of sheets rather than a loose pile.
How QUIRE is used
Mainly technical, used in printing, papermaking, and the history of manuscripts rather than everyday speech.
- The stationer sold paper by the quire rather than by the single sheet.
- Each quire of the manuscript was sewn separately before binding.
- A quire of the old handmade paper cost more than a ream of the new machine-made kind.
- The printer ordered another quire of heavy card stock.
- Scholars examined how each quire of the medieval book had been arranged.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of QUIRE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with QUIRE
2 longer words begin with QUIRE.
Words ending in QUIRE
9 words end in QUIRE. Useful as a back hook: play QUIRE onto a word already on the board.
Words with QUIRE inside
Showing 24 of 58 words that contain QUIRE somewhere in the middle. Words that start with QUIRE are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in QUIRE
Common questions about QUIRE
- Is QUIRE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts QUIRE, where it scores 15 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is QUIRE worth?
- QUIRE is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does QUIRE mean?
- A set of sheets of paper, traditionally twenty-four, folded or gathered together as a unit of measure.
- What letters can be added to QUIRE?
- QUIRE takes 3 hooks: 1 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of QUIRE:
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