queen: meaning and words from its letters
5 letters · 14 letter points · starts with Q · ends with N
Meaning of queen
noun
The wife, consort, or widow of a king.
Example: The divorced king was looking for a new queen.
A female monarch.
A woman whose pre-eminence, power, or forcefulness is comparable to that of a queen. The Virgin Mary (especially in formulations such as Queen of Heaven, Queen of Glory).
A woman whose pre-eminence, power, or forcefulness is comparable to that of a queen. An excellent woman.
Listed forms: queens, queene, quene, queyne.
Source: Wiktionary — queen.
verb
- transitive
To make a queen or (figuratively) to give the status of a queen.
To promote a pawn to a queen.
To be the queen bee of a colony.
To provide with a new queen bee.
Listed forms: queens, queening, queened, queene, quene, queyne.
Source: Wiktionary — queen.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for queen.
noun
a female sovereign ruler
- queen regnant
- female monarch
noun
offensive term for a homosexual man
noun
an especially large mole rat and the only member of a colony of naked mole rats to bear offspring which are sired by only a few males
- queen mole rat
noun
female cat
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
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Letter-value score of queen
Q(10) + U(1) + E(1) + E(1) + N(1) = 14 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of queen
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from queen
5 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in queen. Showing up to 24, longest first.