Scrabble word check
Is IQ a Scrabble Word?
IQ is not playable in Scrabble, since it appears on neither official tournament word list, and it is not in the word list Wordton's finder searches either.
tile score 11
Playable in Scrabble
No
No official list has it, so it is not a play you can defend.
In our word list
No
The finder will not return it, because the list we search does not contain it.
Why players ask
IQ is an initialism, short for intelligence quotient, and initialisms are not playable: the word lists take words, not abbreviations written in capitals. Players reach for it because it looks like the answer to a stranded Q, and it is not. The word you actually want there is QI, which is the same two tiles the other way round and is fully playable.
Every short word in one place
The two-letter reference lists the short plays with a gloss and a tile score for each, and the Scrabble hub collects the rest: the Q, Z, X and J lists, the letter values, and the rules.
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