QUARTER means one-fourth of something, a 25-cent coin, a district or area, or to divide into four parts.
Yes. QUARTER is in the Scrabble-style word list used by our tools and scores 16 points in Scrabble, 17 in Words With Friends and 17 in Wordfeud (base tile values, no board multipliers). Always check the dictionary your game uses (NWL, Collins or the WWF list) before playing.
| Letter | Q | U | A | R | T | E | R | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scrabble | 10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 16 |
| Words With Friends | 10 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 17 |
| Wordfeud | 10 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 17 |
QUARTER exemplifies how a single word can span mathematics, money, geography, and time. As a fraction, it represents one-fourth (1/4) - a fundamental division that appears everywhere from recipes to financial reports. As currency, the quarter is America's workhorse coin, more common in circulation than any other.
In urban geography, quarters are distinct districts: the French Quarter in New Orleans, the Jewish Quarter in Prague, artists' quarters worldwide. These neighborhoods often preserve historical character while evolving with modern life. In time, quarters divide our year into seasons and business cycles.
As a verb, to quarter means to divide into four parts, but historically meant providing lodging for soldiers - "quartering troops." In heraldry, quartering divides shields to display multiple coats of arms. From quarterly earnings to football quarters, this word structures how we measure, divide, and organize our world.
"Quarter" derives from Latin "quartarius," meaning "fourth part," from "quartus" (fourth). The word entered English via Old French "quartier" in the 13th century. Initially meaning one-fourth, it expanded to mean lodgings (dividing buildings into quarters), then military housing, city districts, and mercy shown to defeated enemies ("giving quarter" - sparing their lives). The coin sense emerged in 1783 with the first U.S. quarter dollar. The time sense (quarter-hour, quarter-year) developed from dividing clock faces and calendars into fourths.
Anagrams: no other word uses exactly the letters of QUARTER.
Hooks: no front hooks; back QUARTERN, QUARTERS.
Words inside QUARTER: 48 shorter words can be made from these letters – highest scoring: QUARTEQUATREQUAREQUARTQUATEQATQUARATERTARRETERRATRUERURARE. See all words from QUARTER.