5 letter words starting with qui

Looking for a clue for todays Wordle or another Word game? Look no further! We got you covered. We got quite a few plausible five letter words starting with qui.

  • QUIBS
  • QUICH
  • QUICK
  • QUIDS
  • QUIES
  • QUIET
  • QUIFF
  • QUILA
  • QUILL
  • QUILT
  • QUIMS
  • QUINA
  • QUINE
  • QUINK
  • QUINO
  • QUINS
  • QUINT
  • QUIPO
  • QUIPS
  • QUIPU
  • QUIRE
  • QUIRK
  • QUIRL
  • QUIRT
  • QUIST
  • QUITE
  • QUITS

Sometimes the solution is an uncommon word, then It’s time to learn something new. Here’s the definition of a few of these words:


Definition of quill

quill (noun)

  1. The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.
  2. A pen made from a feather.
  3. Any pen.
  4. A sharply pointed, barbed, and easily detached needle-like structure that grows on the skin of a porcupine or hedgehog as a defense against predators.
  5. A thin piece of bark, especially of cinnamon or cinchona, curled up into a tube.
  6. The pen of a squid.
  7. The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
  8. The tube of a musical instrument.
  9. Something having the form of a quill, such as the fold or plain of a ruff, or a spindle, or spool, upon which the thread for the woof is wound in a shuttle.

quill (verb)

  1. To pierce or be pierced with quills.
  2. To write.
  3. To form fabric into small, rounded folds.
  4. To decorate with quillwork.
  5. To subject (a woman who is giving birth) to the practice of quilling (blowing pepper into her nose to induce or hasten labor).

Definition of quipu

quipu (noun)

  1. A recording device, used by the Incas, consisting of intricate knotted cords.


Definition of quits

quits (verb)

  1. To pay (a debt, fine etc.).
  2. To repay (someone) for (something).
  3. To repay, pay back (a good deed, injury etc.).
  4. To conduct or acquit (oneself); to behave (in a specified way).
  5. To carry through; to go through to the end.
  6. To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.
  7. To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, etc.; to absolve; to acquit.
  8. To abandon, renounce (a thing).
  9. To leave (a place).
  10. To resign from (a job, office, position, etc.).
  11. To stop, give up (an activity) (usually + gerund or verbal noun).
  12. To close (an application).

quits (adjective)

  1. On equal monetary terms; neither owing or being owed.

quits (noun)

  1. Any of numerous species of small passerine birds native to tropical America.