Middle English, from Latin quinquefolium, from quinque 'five' + folium 'leaf'Ī trimming of cock feathers on a woman's hat The number five, as signified in dice or cardsĪ plant of the genus Potentilla, or an ornamental design thereof Urdu and Persian burqa, from Arabic burqu` In American and Canadian English, there are currently 4,422 words with Q not followed by U including the following words in the table below.Ī veiled garment worn by some Muslim women The sources given are selective, and the absence of a reference to a particular dictionary does not necessarily mean that the word does not appear in that dictionary.

References in the 'Sources' column relate to the headword in column one variant spellings are then separately referenced. Unless noted otherwise, all words listed here are assumed to be pluralized by adding -s or -es. Saqqara (an ancient burial ground in Egypt) is a proper noun notable for its use of a double Q. Other proper names and acronyms that have attained the status of English words include Compaq (a computer company), Nasdaq (a US electronic stock market), Qantas (an Australian airline), and QinetiQ (a British technology company). Qaqortoq, in Greenland, is notable for having three such Qs. Iqaluit, the capital of the Canadian territory of Nunavut, also has a Q that is not directly followed by a U. The most familiar of these are the countries of Iraq and Qatar, along with the derived words Iraqi and Qatari. There are, in addition, many place names and personal names, mostly originating from Arabic-speaking countries, Albania, or China, that have a Q without a U. Proper nouns are not included in the list. For words to appear here, they must appear in their own entry in a dictionary words that occur only as part of a longer phrase are not included. However, all of the loanwords on this list are considered to be naturalised in English according to at least one major dictionary (see References), often because they refer to concepts or societal roles that do not have an accurate equivalent in English. Of the 82 words in this list, 78 are (or can be) interpreted as nouns, and most would generally be considered loanwords. However, alternative spellings are sometimes accepted, which use K (or sometimes C) in place of Q for example, Koran ( Qur'ān) and Cairo ( al-Qāhira). In Arabic, the letter ق, traditionally romanised as Q, is quite distinct from ك, traditionally romanised as K for example, قلب /qalb/ means 'heart' but كلب /kalb/ means 'dog'. In other examples, Q represents in standard Arabic, such as in qat and faqir. For example, in the Chinese pinyin alphabet, qi is pronounced /tʃi/ (similar to 'chi' in English) by an English speaker, as pinyin uses 'q' to represent the sound, which is approximated as (ch) in English.

The majority of these are anglicised from Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Inuktitut, or other languages that do not use the English alphabet, with Q representing a sound not found in English. In English, the letter Q is usually followed by the letter U, but there are some exceptions. Like 32 of the 72 other English words that use a q not followed by a u, souq is of Arabic origin. Search the Scrabble dictionary by browsing to find best word to suit your needs.QWERTY, one of the few native English words with Q not followed by U, is derived from the first six letters of a standard keyboard layout. Acequia 18 acequias 19 acquaint 19 acquaintance 25 acquaintances 26 acquainted 22 acquainting 23 acquaints 20 acquest 18 acquests 19 acquiesce 22 acquiesced 24 acquiescence 27 acquiescences 28 acquiescent 24 acquiescently 29 acquiesces 23 acquiescing 25 acquirable 23 acquire 18 acquired 20 acquiree 19 acquirees 20 acquirement 24 acquirements 25 acquirer 19 acquirers 20 acquires 19 acquiring 21 acquisition 22 acquisitional 24 acquisitions 23 acquisitive 25 acquisitively 30 acquisitiveness 29 acquisitor 21 acquisitors 22 acquit 17 acquits 18 acquittal 20 acquittals 21 acquittance 24 acquittances 25 acquitted 21 acquitter 20 acquitters 21 acquitting 22 adequacies 22 adequacy 23 adequate 18 adequately 23 adequateness 22 adequatenesses 24 aequorin 17 aequorins 18 alfaqui 19 alfaquin 20 alfaquins 21 alfaquis 20 aliquant 17 aliquot 16 aliquots 17 anthraquinone 25 anthraquinones 26 antimosquito 23 antiplaque 21 antiquarian 20 antiquarianism 25 antiquarianisms 26 antiquarians 21 antiquaries 20 antiquark 22 antiquarks 23 antiquary 21 antiquate 18 antiquated 20 antiquates 19 antiquating 21 antiquation 20 antiquations 21 antique 16 antiqued 18 antiquely 21 antiquer 17 antiquers 18 antiques 17 antiquing 19 antiquities 20 antiquity 21 applique 21 appliqued 23 appliqueing 25 appliques 22 aqua 13 aquacade 20 aquacades 21 aquacultural 23 aquaculture 22 aquacultures 23 aquaculturist 24

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