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quaint

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Is quaint a Scrabble word?

Yes, quaint is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 15 points in Scrabble.

Word Games

  • Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of quaint?

Definition

adj (English)

1. (obsolete) Of a person: cunning, crafty.Examples: "But you, my Lord, were glad to be imploy'd, / To shew how queint an Orator you are."obsolete

2. (obsolete) Cleverly made; artfully contrived.Examples: "describe races and games, / Or tilting furniture, imblazon'd shields, / Impresses quaint, caparisons and steeds, / Bases and tinsel trappings […]."obsolete

3. (now dialectal) Strange or odd; unusual.Examples: "Till that there entered on the other side / A straunger knight, from whence no man could reed, / In quyent disguise, full hard to be descride […]."; "Lord Gifford, deep beneath the ground, / Heard Alexander's bugle sound, / And tarried not his garb to change, / But, in his wizard habit strange, / Came forth, a quaint and fearful sight; [...]"; "What none would dispute though many smiled over was the good-humored, necessary, yet quaint omission of the writer's name from the whole consideration."dialectal

4. (obsolete) Overly discriminating or needlessly meticulous; fastidious; prim.Examples: "She, nothing quaint / Nor 'sdeignfull of so homely fashion, / Sith brought she was now to so hard constraint, / Sate downe upon the dusty ground anon […]."obsolete

noun (English)

1. (obsolete or historical) The vulva.Examples: "The rest looked on, horrified, as Clarice trussed up her habit and in open view placed her hand within her queynte crying, ‘The first house of Sunday belongs to the sun, and the second to Venus.’"historicalobsolete

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "quaint"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "quaint"?

Scrabble
15 points
Q10
U1
A1
I1
N1
T1
Words With Friends
17 points
Q10
U2
A1
I1
N2
T1

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