Words with Q but no U

What is in this list

This list holds 21 words, under 0.1% of the 172,634 words this site keeps from the ENABLE word list. They run from 3 to 8 letters, and the most common length is 6 letters with 7 words (33.3% of the list). The shortest is QAT; the longest are QINDARKA and SHEQALIM. Of the 11 lists in this group it is the smallest; “words with Y” is the largest with 24,453, 1,164 times as many.

Points and vowels

Using this site's letter values, the average word here scores 16.8 points (median 16); words of the same lengths across the whole list average 10.5, so this list runs 6.3 points richer. The top scorers are QWERTYS (23), QINDARKA (22), QWERTY (22), SHEQALIM (22). Point for point, QOPH earns the most per letter: 17 points over 4 letters, 4.3 each. Q itself is worth 10 points here, which is why so many of these words outscore their length.

Vowels (A, E, I, O, U) make up 30.3% of the letters, against 38% across the whole list.

How the words are built

42.9% end in a single S — mostly plurals and verb forms of shorter words.

Word play in this list

No two words in this list are anagrams of each other. The longest word with no letter repeated is SHEQALIM (8 different letters). QWERTYS is the longest word here that uses only one kind of vowel, ahead of QANATS.

42.9% of these words take an S on the end and stay a word (FAQIR, QAID and QANAT among them). None of them can take a single letter in front and still be a word.

Using this list

The full list is short enough to read in one go: FAQIR, FAQIRS, QAID, QAIDS, QANAT, QANATS, QAT, QATS, QINDAR, QINDARKA, QINDARS, QINTAR, QINTARS, QOPH, QOPHS, QWERTY, QWERTYS, SHEQALIM, SHEQEL, TRANQ and TRANQS. Ranked by points it runs from QWERTYS (23) down to QAT (12), a spread of 11 points.