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Is qualify a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word qualify is a Scrabble US word. The word qualify is worth 22 points in Scrabble:

Q10U1A1L1I1F4Y4

Is qualify a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word qualify is a Scrabble UK word and has 22 points:

Q10U1A1L1I1F4Y4

Is qualify a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word qualify is a Words With Friends word. The word qualify is worth 23 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

Q10U2A1L2I1F4Y3

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7-letter words (1 found)

QUALIFY,

5-letter words (1 found)

QUAIL,

4-letter words (7 found)

ALIF,FAIL,FILA,FLAY,LAUF,QUAI,QUAY,

3-letter words (11 found)

AIL,ALF,ALU,AUF,AYU,FAY,FIL,FLU,FLY,LAY,QUA,

2-letter words (12 found)

AI,AL,AY,FA,FU,FY,IF,LA,LI,QI,YA,YU,

You can make 32 words from qualify according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of qualify

qualify

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French qualifier (“to qualify”). Equivalent to quality + -fy.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkwɑl.ɪ.faɪ/, enPR: kwŏlʹĭ-fī
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkwɒl.ɪ.faɪ/, enPR: kwŏlʹĭ-fī
  • (obsolete) IPA(key): /ˈkwæl.ɪ.faɪ/, enPR: kwălʹĭ-fī
  • Hyphenation: qual‧i‧fy

Verb

qualify (third-person singular simple present qualifies, present participle qualifying, simple past and past participle qualified)

  1. To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.
  2. To make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task.
  3. To certify or license someone for something.
  4. To modify, limit, restrict or moderate something; especially to add conditions or requirements for an assertion to be true.
  5. (now rare) To mitigate, alleviate (something); to make less disagreeable.
  6. To compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage.
  7. To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate.
  8. (juggling) To throw and catch each object at least twice.

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Noun

qualify

  1. (juggling) An instance of throwing and catching each prop at least twice.

Source: wiktionary.org