Here are the 50 most played words in Scrabble that contain the letter "Q". The words are presented in playrank order, meaning QI is the most often played word of the bunch, QIS is the second most often played word, and so on down the list. This information only applies to games played under the OWL2 official tournament word list.
There are 2576 legal q-words in the OWL2 list, but the 50 words presented below account for over 75% of all q-word plays! Putting that another way, if a q-word is used in a game then there is a 75% chance that it is in the list below.
All of these words are commonly played and should be memorized.
1. qi
2. qis
3. qat
4. qua
5. qats
6. suq
7. qadi
8. aqua
9. qaid
10. tranq
11. quai
12. qadis
13. quod
14. quag
15. quad
16. quin
17. qanat
18. equid
19. aquae
20. quay
21. faqir
22. quiz
23. quit
24. queen
25. quid
26. roque
27. quoin
28. quey
29. quiet
30. quean
31. equip
32. suqs
33. quail
34. qoph
35. quip
36. quire
37. fique
38. qaids
39. quern
40. quite
41. toque
42. quare
43. qintar
44. queer
45. tranqs
46. quota
47. quoit
48. quote
49. equate
50. quate
All together, these words are played 5 times more often than
the next 150 words that contain the letter "Q" combined. That makes it
far more worthwhile and efficient to memorize these 50 words than the
next 150. However, if we don't include the word QI then the ratio
falls from 5 times to 2.5 times. QI gets played a lot... as often as
the next 49 words in the list combined!
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