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5-Letter Words Starting with Q

There are 55 five-letter words that start with Q on Word.ws, from qadar to quoth. The most common are quite, quick, queen, quiet and quote.

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All 55 five-letter words that start with Q

QA

  • qadar15n. Divine intervention in the affairs of humans; fate, predestination.
  • qalam16n. A reed pen used for Islamic calligraphy.
  • qanat14n. An underground conduit, between vertical shafts, that leads water from...
  • qanun14n. A Near Eastern and Caucasian musical instrument related to the zither...

QI

  • qibla16n. The direction in which Muslims face while praying, currently determined...
  • qilin14n. A mythical Chinese hooved chimerical creature, said to appear in...
  • qipao16n. A traditional one-piece dress worn by Chinese women.
  • qisas14n. Under sharia law, the principle of retaliation in kind, or retributive...

QU

  • quack20n. The vocalisation made by a duck.
  • quads15n. A four of a kind.
  • quaff20v. To drink or imbibe with vigour or relish; to drink copiously; to...
  • quail14v. To waste away; to fade, to wither.
  • quake18n. A trembling or shaking.
  • quale14n. An instance of a subjective, conscious experience.
  • qualm16n. A feeling of apprehension, doubt, fear etc.
  • quant14n. Quantitative analysis or research.
  • quare14adj. Queer, strange.
  • quark18n. In the Standard Model, one of a number of elementary subatomic...
  • quart14n. A unit of liquid capacity equal to two pints; one-fourth (quarter) of a...
  • quash17v. To defeat decisively, to suppress.
  • quasi14adj. Resembling or having a likeness to the named thing.
  • quate14adj. Quiet.
  • qubit16n. A quantum bit; the basic unit of quantum information described by a...
  • quean14n. A young woman, a girl; a daughter.
  • queen14n. The wife, consort, or widow of a king.
  • queer14adj. Pertaining to sexual or gender behaviour or identity which does not...
  • quell14v. To subdue, put down, or silence (someone or something); to force...
  • quena14n. A traditional flute of the Andes.
  • quern14n. A mill for grinding corn, especially a handmill made of two circular...
  • query17n. A question, an inquiry (US), an enquiry (UK).
  • quest14n. A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or...
  • queue14n. A line of people, vehicles or other objects, usually one to be dealt...
  • quick20adj. Moving with speed, rapidity or swiftness, or capable of doing so...
  • quiet14adj. With little or no sound; free of disturbing noise.
  • quiff20n. A puff or whiff, especially of tobacco smoke.
  • quill14n. The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.
  • quilt14n. A bed covering consisting of two layers of fabric stitched together...
  • quina14n. Quinine.
  • quine14n. A program that produces its own source code as output.
  • quink18n. A hypothetical fundamental particle; a preon.
  • quint14n. An interval of one fifth.
  • quipu16n. A recording device, used by the Incas, consisting of intricate knotted...
  • quire14n. One-twentieth of a ream of paper; a collection of twenty-four or...
  • quirk18n. An idiosyncrasy; a slight glitch, a mannerism; something unusual about...
  • quirt14n. A rawhide whip plaited with two thongs of buffalo hide.
  • quist14n. The wood pigeon, Columba palumbus.
  • quite14adv. With verbs, especially past participles.
  • quits14adj. On equal monetary terms; neither owing or being owed.
  • quoad15prep. With respect to.
  • quoin14n. Any of the corner building blocks of a building, usually larger or more...
  • quoit14n. A flat disc of metal or stone thrown at a target in the game of quoits.
  • quoll14n. Any of the various carnivorous marsupials of the genus Dasyurus found...
  • quota14n. A proportional part or share; the share or proportion assigned to each...
  • quote14n. A statement attributed to a person; a quotation.
  • quoth17v. Said.
45 rare five-letter words that start with Q

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with Q are there?
Word.ws lists 55 five-letter words that start with Q, plus 45 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with Q?
quite, quick, queen, quiet, quote, quest, queue and queer.
Which of the five-letter words that start with Q has the highest letter score?
quiff scores 20 points with the standard letter tile values.

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Word lists and meanings adapted from the Wiktionary entry of each word. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out names, abbreviations, misspellings and offensive words, and ordered the most common words by how often they appear in English (wordfreq). Meanings from Wiktionary; this is not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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