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Scrabble Word Lists Q without U – Parker Brothers, attributed to: Joe Edley; John D. Williams, Jr. (2009). "Chapter 6: Your Fourth-Grade Teacher, Mrs. Kleinfelder, Lied to you: You Can Have Words with a Q and No U". Everything Scrabble: Third Edition. Simon and Schuster. pp. 56– 58. ISBN 978-1-4165-6175-0
See the list of English words containing Q not followed by U. Q is the second least frequently used letter in the English language (after Z), with a frequency of just 0.1% in words. Q has the fourth fewest English words where it is the first letter, after X, Z, and Y.
All words are sourced to major 20th Century dictionaries, and there is also useful discussion on the words themselves, elevating the article above a list of dicdefs. I should point out (if this were not obvious) that this article is something of a self-nom, as I started it and have worked on it extensively.
8 points: C ×2, X ×1, Z ×1; The distribution lacks Q and W, which are very rare and only occur in foreign words. C, X, and Z also only occur in foreign words, but they are not so rare, so they were included. Q and W can be played with a blank.
List of American words not widely used in the United Kingdom; List of British words not widely used in the United States; List of South African English regionalisms; List of words having different meanings in American and British English: A–L; List of words having different meanings in American and British English: M–Z
[citation needed] Additionally, the v–v or u-u ligature double-u (W w) was in use. In the year 1011, a monk named Byrhtferð recorded the traditional order of the Old English alphabet. [ 2 ] He listed the 24 letters of the Latin alphabet first, including the ampersand , then 5 additional English letters, starting with the Tironian note ond ...
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While such words are technically outside the scope of the list as defined by its title, they are usually terms borrowed from languages (in these cases Chinese and Arabic) where the Q is an ordinary consonant that may or may not be followed by U, like almost all the words currently in the list are. --Theurgist 23:38, 24 May 2019 (UTC)