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Is quark a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word quark is a Scrabble US word. The word quark is worth 18 points in Scrabble:

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Is quark a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word quark is a Scrabble UK word and has 18 points:

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5-letter words (1 found)

QUARK,

4-letter words (1 found)

RAKU,

3-letter words (3 found)

ARK,AUK,QUA,

2-letter words (3 found)

AR,KA,UR,

You can make 8 words from quark according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of quark

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Definitions and meaning of quark

quark

Etymology 1

Coined by American physicist Murray Gell-Mann in 1963. The literary connection to James Joyce's Finnegans Wake was asserted later; see the Quark Wikipedia article.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kwôk, IPA(key): /kwɔːk/; enPR: kwäk, IPA(key): /kwɑːk/
  • (General American) enPR: kwôrk, IPA(key): /kwɔɹk/; enPR: kwärk, IPA(key): /kwɑɹk/
  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k, Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k

Noun

quark (plural quarks)

  1. (physics) In the Standard Model, an elementary subatomic particle that forms matter. They combine to form hadrons, such as protons and neutrons.
  2. (computing, X Window System) An integer that uniquely identifies a text string.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Translations
See also
  • hadron
  • meson

Etymology 2

Borrowed from German Quark, from late Middle High German twarc, from a West Slavic language (compare Polish twaróg), from Proto-Slavic *tvarogъ.

Doublet of tvorog.

Noun

quark (uncountable)

  1. A soft creamy cheese, eaten throughout northern, central, eastern, and southeastern Europe as well as the Low Countries, very similar to cottage cheese except that it is usually not made with rennet.
Translations
See also
  • curd

Etymology 3

Onomatopoeic, from the sound of the squawk.

Noun

quark (plural quarks)

  1. (Falkland Islands, informal) The black-crowned night heron, Nycticorax nycticorax.

Further reading

  • quark on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • quark (dairy product) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • quark (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Basque

Etymology

From English quark.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kwark/ [kwark]
  • Rhymes: -ark
  • Hyphenation: quark

Noun

quark inan

  1. (physics) quark

Declension

Further reading

  • "quark" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from English quark.

Noun

quark m (plural quarks)

  1. (physics) quark

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English quark.

Pronunciation

  • Homophone: kwark

Noun

quark m (plural quarks)

  1. (physics) quark

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English quark.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kwaʁk/

Noun

quark m (plural quarks)

  1. (physics) quark

Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from English quark.

Noun

quark m (plural quarks)

  1. (physics) quark

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English quark.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkwark/
  • Rhymes: -ark
  • Hyphenation: quàrk

Noun

quark m (invariable)

  1. (physics) quark

Derived terms

  • quarkonio

Further reading

  • quark in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Unadapted borrowing from English quark.

Noun

quark m (plural quarks)

  1. (physics) quark (an elementary subatomic particle which forms matter)

Etymology 2

Unadapted borrowing from German Quark.

Noun

quark m (plural quarks)

  1. quark (soft creamy cheese)

References

Spanish

Alternative forms

  • cuark, cuarc

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English quark.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkwaɾk/ [ˈkwaɾk]
  • Rhymes: -aɾk
  • Syllabification: quark

Noun

quark m (plural quarks)

  1. quark
    Hypernyms: fermión, partícula elemental

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Hyponyms

  • (quarks) quark; quark arriba, quark abajo, quark encantado, quark extraño, quark cima, quark fondo (Category: es:Quarks)

See also

  • (fermions) fermión; quark, leptón
  • quark on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia es

Further reading

  • “quark”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Source: wiktionary.org