7-letter words starting with Q
175 7-letter words starting with Q, sorted alphabetically with Scrabble & Words With Friends scores.
Here are 175 7-letter words that begin with Q, pulled from our 270,000-word dictionary. They're handy when you've locked the opening letter in Wordle, or when Q is the only tile you can lead with on a Scrabble or Words With Friends board.
Each word shows its Scrabble and Words With Friends point values so you can spot the highest-scoring openers at a glance.
The strongest Scrabble play in this list is QUIZZED (35 points).
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someone who administers a test to determine your qualifications
the basic unit of money in Guatemala; equal to 100 centavos
with speed
a person who drinks heartily
prove capable or fit; meet requirements
move faster
more quickly
hurried repair
an esoteric or occult matter resembling the Kabbalah that is traditionally secret
any of several plants of the genus Camassia; North and South America
Atlantic coast round clams with hard shells; large clams usually used for chowders or other clam dishes
a Christian sect founded by George Fox about 1660; commonly called Quakers
a fee charged for the use of a wharf or quay
an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections
a curve or surface whose equation (in Cartesian coordinates) is of the second degree
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Definitions from Open English WordNet 2025 (CC BY 4.0), incorporating Princeton WordNet data