Specialty list
Q Words Without U
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There are 21 English words containing a Q not followed by a U in the word list Wordton searches, ENABLE plus a curated modern supplement.
Nearly every English Q leans on a U. The words below stand without one, and almost all of them are loanwords that kept their original spelling. From Arabic came QAT, the shrub, QAID, a local chieftain, and FAQIR, a religious ascetic; QANAT, an underground irrigation channel, traveled the same route out of Persia. QOPH is the nineteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet and SHEQEL its coin, QINDAR and QINTAR are Albanian money, and QWERTY, the youngest of the set, was simply named after the top row of a keyboard.
The famous Chinese imports are the honest gap in this list: QI, the life force, and its cousins are common plays in newer game dictionaries, but the public-domain ENABLE list this site searches predates their acceptance and does not include them. What you see below is the complete Q-without-U inventory of those 173,000 words, and every entry plays wherever ENABLE applies.
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This is a compact list: just 21 words qualify, from 3 to 8 letters. The longest is QINDARKA at 8 letters, and 6-letter words make up 7 of the 21.