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QUEER

5 letters, 14 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What QUEER Means

  1. verb: hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of“What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge”
  2. verb: put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
  3. adjective: beyond or deviating from the usual or expected“a curious hybrid accent”
  4. adjective: homosexual or arousing homosexual desires

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

QUEER 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 E1 E1 R1.

Words Made From The Letters In QUEER

8 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.

3 letter words (4)

2 letter words (4)

Longer Words Containing QUEER

QUEER appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.

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