What QUAIL Means
- noun: flesh of quail; suitable for roasting or broiling if young; otherwise must be braised
- noun: small gallinaceous game birds
- verb: draw back, as with fear or pain“she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf”
Similar words
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
QUAIL is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 14 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as Q10 U1 A1 I1 L1.
Words Made From The Letters In QUAIL
9 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
4 letter words (1)
3 letter words (3)
2 letter words (5)
Longer Words Containing QUAIL
QUAIL appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.
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