QUIST is valid in Collins, not in North America — 14 points
It depends on the list you play by. QUIST 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 QUIST?
| 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: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful QUIST is to know. It scores 14 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 4.8% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for QUIST
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
quistsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How QUIST scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in QUIST, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| q | 1 | 1 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| t | 1 | 6 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 87,138.
What stands out about QUIST
- The same 5 tiles also spell 2 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does QUIST mean in Scrabble?
noun
dialectBritish
An older British dialect name for the wood pigeon, a bird elsewhere known as a cushat.
Quist belonged to country speech in parts of England before wood pigeon became the standard name everyone reached for. Dialect glossaries record it alongside close cousins such as cushat and queest, all naming the same large, grey woodland bird known for its soft, repeated call. The word now survives mainly in old dialect dictionaries and in place names rather than in everyday conversation.
How QUIST is used
Regional and old-fashioned; found in English dialect glossaries and older rural writing, rarely used in current speech.
- A quist called steadily from the top of the old oak.
- The gamekeeper still used quist where townsfolk would say wood pigeon.
- Farmers complained that the quist stripped their fields of young shoots.
- The dialect dictionary listed quist as a local name for the wood pigeon.
- A pair of quist nested in the same hedge every spring.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of QUIST and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of QUIST
The 5 tiles of QUIST in a different order — 2 found.
Words starting with QUIST
1 longer words begin with QUIST.
Words ending in QUIST
6 words end in QUIST. Useful as a back hook: play QUIST onto a word already on the board.
Words with QUIST inside
16 words contain QUIST in the middle. Words that start with QUIST are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in QUIST
Common questions about QUIST
- Is QUIST valid in Words with Friends?
- No. Words with Friends keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries, and QUIST is not in it.
- How many points is QUIST worth?
- QUIST is worth 14 points in Scrabble and 15 points in Words with Friends.
- What does QUIST mean?
- An older British dialect name for the wood pigeon, a bird elsewhere known as a cushat.
- What letters can be added to QUIST?
- QUIST takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of QUIST:
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