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QUOIN

5 letters, 14 points in Scrabble, 3 vowels

What QUOIN Means

  1. noun: expandable metal or wooden wedge used by printers to lock up a form within a chase
  2. noun: the keystone of an arch

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

QUOIN 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 O1 I1 N1.

Anagrams of QUOIN (1)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In QUOIN

13 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 (9)

Longer Words Containing QUOIN

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

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