5-Letter Words with Q
There are 86 five-letter words with Q on Word.ws, from burqa to weiqi. The most common are quite, quick, queen, squad and equal.
Meanings from Wiktionary. Not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list.
All 86 five-letter words with Q
B
- burqa16n. An enveloping Central Asian garment which covers the whole body...
C
- coque16n. A small loop or bow of ribbon used in making hats, boas, etc.
- coqui16n. A coqui frog (Eleutherodactylus).
D
- deque15n. A linear data structure in which elements may be appended to or removed...
E
- equal14adj. The same in one or more respects.
- eques14n. A member of the equestrian order (Latin: ordo equester), the lower of...
- equid15n. Any animal of the taxonomic family Equidae, including any equine...
- equip16v. To supply with something necessary in order to carry out a specific...
- equol14n. An isoflavandiol metabolized from daidzein by bacterial flora in the...
F
- faqih20n. An expert in Islamic law.
G
- guqin15n. A plucked zither-like stringed instrument (chordophone), traditionally...
M
- maqam18n. A modal structure characterizing the art of music of countries in North...
- maqui16n. A South American shrub (Aristotelia chilensis) native to the Valdivian...
N
- naqib16n. One of the leading missionaries of the Hashimiyya movement who prepared...
- niqab16n. A veil which covers the face (except for the eyes), worn by some Muslim...
P
- pique16v. To wound the pride of (someone); to excite to anger; to irritate, to...
Q
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
R
- roque14n. A form of croquet using short-handled mallets, and played on a hard...
S
- squab16n. A young dove or pigeon.
- squad15n. A group of people organized for some common purpose, usually of about...
- squam16n. An oilskin hat; a southwester.
- squat14adj. Relatively short or low, and thick or broad.
- squee14v. To squeal with excitement or delight.
- squib16n. A small firework that is intended to spew sparks rather than explode.
- squid15n. Any of several carnivorous marine cephalopod mollusks, of the order...
T
- talaq14n. An Islamic divorce, sanctioned by the Qur'an.
- taqwa17n. The care taken by a person to obey the commands of Allah.
- toque14n. A type of hat with no brim.
- tranq14n. The veterinary analgesic drug xylazine, used as a street drug.
- tuque14n. A knit cap, often woollen but of varying shape, usually conical and...
U
- usque14n. Whisky.
W
- weiqi17n. An ancient Chinese board game, today also popular in Japan and Korea...
88 rare five-letter words with Q
- ablaq
- aqpik
- aquic
- aquod
- aquox
- buzuq
- ceque
- chaqu
- coreq
- daniq
- fasiq
- fique
- heqat
- hiriq
- huqin
- ioqua
- iqama
- iqmik
- iqyax
- jiqui
- maqaf
- maqta
- muqam
- muqta
- muqti
- naniq
- nuqta
- nuque
- pequi
- pereq
- pisiq
- qadad
- qafiz
- qahal
- qapik
- qargi
- qasab
- qenet
- qibli
- qinpu
- qiran
- qirat
- qiyam
- qiyan
- qiyas
- qobar
- quaky
- quapa
- quarl
- quass
- quave
- quawk
- qubba
- qudit
- queal
- queap
- queek
- queep
- queme
- quenk
- querk
- querl
- queth
- queyu
- quica
- quimp
- quing
- quira
- quirl
- quism
- qumix
- quonk
- quork
- qursh
- qurut
- qword
- squeg
- squig
- squir
- squit
- squop
- sqush
- toqui
- umqan
- usteq
- waqif
- xiqin
- zaque
Questions about these words
- How many five-letter words with Q are there?
- Word.ws lists 86 five-letter words with Q, plus 88 rare ones.
- What are common five-letter words with Q?
- quite, quick, queen, squad, equal, quiet, quote and quest.
- Which of the five-letter words 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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