1. Home
  2. Scrabble Dictionary. Word Meaning and Points

Quality in Scrabble and Meaning

Lookup Word Points and Definitions

What does quality mean? Is quality a Scrabble word?

How many points in Scrabble is quality worth? quality how many points in Words With Friends? What does quality mean? Get all these answers on this page.

Scrabble® and Words with Friends® points for quality

See how to calculate how many points for quality.

Is quality a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word quality is a Scrabble US word. The word quality is worth 19 points in Scrabble:

Q10U1A1L1I1T1Y4

Is quality a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word quality is a Scrabble UK word and has 19 points:

Q10U1A1L1I1T1Y4

Is quality a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word quality is a Words With Friends word. The word quality is worth 20 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

Q10U2A1L2I1T1Y3

Our tools

Valid words made from Quality

Jump to...

Results

7-letter words (1 found)

QUALITY,

5-letter words (3 found)

LAITY,QUAIL,QUILT,

4-letter words (12 found)

AITU,ALIT,LATI,LATU,LITU,LUIT,QUAI,QUAT,QUAY,QUIT,TAIL,TALI,

3-letter words (17 found)

AIL,AIT,ALT,ALU,AYU,ITA,LAT,LAY,LIT,QAT,QUA,TAI,TAU,TAY,TIL,TUI,UTA,

2-letter words (13 found)

AI,AL,AT,AY,IT,LA,LI,QI,TA,TI,UT,YA,YU,

You can make 46 words from quality according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of quality

quality

Etymology

From Middle English qualite, from Old French qualité, from Latin quālitās, quālitātem, from quālis (“of what kind”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷo- (“who, how”). Cicero coined qualitas as a calque to translate the Ancient Greek word ποιότης (poiótēs, “quality”), coined by Plato from ποῖος (poîos, “of what nature, of what kind”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkwɒlɪti/
  • (US, father-bother merger, weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /ˈkwɑləti/, [ˈkʰwɑ.lə.ɾi]
  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈkwɔl.ə.ti/, [ˈkwɔɫ.ə.ti]
  • (obsolete) IPA(key): /ˈkwælɪti/, /ˈkwælɪtɪ/

Noun

quality (countable and uncountable, plural qualities)

  1. (uncountable) Level of excellence.
    • 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
      He called for China’s cooperation in efforts to improve air quality.
  2. (countable) Something that differentiates a thing or person.
  3. (archaic) Position; status; rank.
  4. (archaic) High social position. (See also the quality.)
  5. (uncountable) The degree to which a man-made object or system is free from bugs and flaws, as opposed to scope of functions or quantity of items.
  6. (thermodynamics) In a two-phase liquid–vapor mixture, the ratio of the mass of vapor present to the total mass of the mixture.
  7. (emergency medicine, countable) The third step in OPQRST where the responder investigates what the NOI/MOI feels like.
  8. (countable, UK, journalism) A newspaper with relatively serious, high-quality content.

Usage notes

  • Adjectives often applied to "quality": high, good, excellent, exceptional, great, outstanding, satisfactory, acceptable, sufficient, adequate, poor, low, bad, inferior, dubious, environmental, visual, optical, industrial, total, artistic, educational, physical, musical, chemical, spiritual, intellectual, architectural, mechanical.

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:characteristic

Hyponyms

  • human quality
  • industrial quality

Coordinate terms

  • (a property that differentiates): quiddity

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

quality (comparative more quality, superlative most quality)

  1. Being of good worth, well made, fit for purpose; of high quality.

Derived terms

  • qualityness

Related terms

  • qualia
  • qualitative

Translations

References

Further reading

  • “quality”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “quality”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “quality”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Source: wiktionary.org