Word list
Q without U
A Q with no U next to it looks like a dead tile. It is not quite. The dictionary holds 56 playable words that use Q without any U, and the short ones come up more often than you would expect.
They are mostly words borrowed from Arabic, Hebrew and Chinese, where the Q stands for a sound English does not have. The ones worth knowing are the short ones, because they need the fewest lucky neighbors.
Six letters or fewer
- COREQ also COREQS
- Short for corequisite, a course taken at the same time as another.
- FAQIR also FAQIRS
- A Muslim or Hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man.
- QADI also QADIS
- An Islamic judge.
- QAID also QAIDS
- A Muslim local leader or judge.
- QANAT also QANATS
- An underground channel that carries water from the hills to a village.
- QASIDA
- A classical Arabic or Persian poem.
- QAT also QATS
- The leaves of the shrub Catha edulis which are chewed like tobacco or used to make tea.
- QIBLA also QIBLAS
- The direction of the Kaaba toward which Muslims turn for their daily prayers.
- QIGONG
- A Chinese system of breathing and movement exercises.
- QINDAR
- A coin of Albania, one hundredth of a lek.
- QINTAR
- A coin of Albania, one hundredth of a lek.
- QIS
- Plural of qi, the life force in Chinese thought.
- QOPH also QOPHS
- The 19th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- QWERTY
- The standard keyboard layout, named for its first six letters.
- SHEQEL
- The money of Israel.
- TALAQ also TALAQS
- A form of divorce in Islamic law.
- TRANQ also TRANQS
- Short for tranquilizer.
- WAQF also WAQFS
- A gift of property for religious or charitable use in Islamic law.
- YAQONA
- A Fijian drink made from the kava plant.
Longer
- INQILAB
- INQILABS
- MBAQANGA
- MBAQANGAS
- QABALAH
- QABALAHS
- QAIMAQAM
- QAIMAQAMS
- QALAMDAN
- QALAMDANS
- QASIDAS
- QIGONGS
- QINDARKA
- QINDARKAS
- QINDARS
- QINTARS
- QWERTIES
- QWERTYS
- SHEQALIM
- TSADDIQ
- TSADDIQIM
- TSADDIQS
- TZADDIQ
- TZADDIQIM
- TZADDIQS
- YAQONAS
How to use them
- Look for an A or an I touching the Q. Most of the short words above need one of them.
- Most of these words take an S. Check for one before you move on.
- If the Q has no vowel beside it at all, leave it. Do not spend ten seconds on one tile.
Definitions: Princeton University "About WordNet." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010. Shown here in shortened form.
Last updated October 4, 2026. Every number and word on this page is generated from the same rules and the same 260,345-word dictionary the game server uses.