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5-letter words starting with Q
There are 53 5-letter words starting with Q in the standard word-game list. The most common are quite, quiet, quick, queen, quote, quest. Every five-letter word here is a valid Wordle guess, and the commonest ones are the likeliest answers.
Most common, with meanings
| Word | Meaning | Points |
|---|---|---|
| quite | to a degree (not used with a negative) | 14 |
| quiet | characterized by an absence or near absence of agitation or activity | 14 |
| quick | accomplished rapidly and without delay | 20 |
| queen | the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to… | 14 |
| quote | a punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else | 14 |
| quest | a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria | 14 |
| queer | beyond or deviating from the usual or expected | 14 |
| queue | a line of people or vehicles waiting for something | 14 |
| quack | medically unqualified | 20 |
| quits | on equal terms by payment or requital | 14 |
| quota | a prescribed number | 14 |
| quill | pen made from a bird's feather | 14 |
| quake | shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane or… | 18 |
| quark | (physics) hypothetical truly fundamental particle in mesons and baryons; there are supposed to be six… | 18 |
| quail | flesh of quail; suitable for roasting or broiling if young; otherwise must be braised | 14 |
| quilt | bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together | 14 |
| quart | a United States liquid unit equal to 32 fluid ounces; four quarts equal one gallon | 14 |
| quint | the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one | 14 |
| query | an instance of questioning | 17 |
| quell | suppress or crush completely | 14 |
| quirk | a strange attitude or habit | 18 |
| quash | put down by force or intimidation | 17 |
| quads | Four of a kind | 15 |
| quirt | whip with a leather thong at the end | 14 |
| qanat | An underground conduit, between vertical shafts, that leads water from the interior of a hill to villages in… | 14 |
| quaff | a hearty draft | 20 |
| quaky | Inclined to quake; tremulous. | 21 |
| quale | An instance of subjective, conscious experience. | 14 |
| qualm | uneasiness about the fitness of an action (particularly for reasons of ethics, morals or propriety) | 16 |
| quant | A quantitative analyst. | 14 |
| quare | (used to suggest emphasis such as "a lot of" or "very" (suggesting an Irish accent).) | 14 |
| quasi | having some resemblance | 14 |
| quass | Alternative spelling of kvass | 14 |
| quate | Quiet | 14 |
| quean | A young woman, a girl; a daughter. | 14 |
| quern | a primitive stone mill for grinding corn by hand | 14 |
| quiff | a prominent forelock (especially one brushed upward from the forehead) | 20 |
| quipu | calculator consisting of a cord with attached cords; used by ancient Peruvians for calculating and keeping… | 16 |
| quire | a quantity of paper; 24 or 25 sheets | 14 |
| quoin | expandable metal or wooden wedge used by printers to lock up a form within a chase | 14 |
| quoit | game equipment consisting of a ring of iron or circle of rope used in playing the game of quoits | 14 |
| quoth | Simple past tense of quethe; said | 17 |
| qursh | A monetary unit in Saudi Arabia equivalent to a twentieth of a rial. | 17 |