Unscramble QUINTES to get 124 words. QUINTES itself is a real word: 16 points on a Scrabble board, 18 in Words With Friends. It has 1 anagram, each with the same 16 points: INQUEST. 7 letters: 3 vowels and 4 consonants. All 7 tiles of QUINTES in one turn: 66 in Scrabble (16 + 50), 53 in Words With Friends (18 + 35).
Q10U12I1N12T1E1S1
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from QUINTES by length: 2 with 7 letters, 12 with 6, 27 with 5, 34 with 4, 33 with 3 and 16 with 2.
9 of 27 5-letter words you get when you unscramble QUINTES tie at 14 points; none scores more. QUITE, UNITS and SUITE will look familiar.
Keep every letter of QUINTES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 7-letter words: starting with QU · ending in ES · all 7-letter words
What QUINTES means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept QUINTES, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| QUINTES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 124) | 101 | 124 | 90 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 23 of them: QUEINT, QUINES, QUITES, QUINE, QUIST, SQUIT, QINS, QIN, INTUSE, INUST, SIENT, SUENT and 11 more. Words With Friends* skips 11 of them: QIS, QI, TEINS, TEIN, UNIS, UTES, EST, TES, UNI, UTE and TE.
These 12 words take every letter of QUINTES plus a single extra one.