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q¹

  • /kjuː/ letter, name
  • /k/ phoneme
  • /kw/ phoneme

Sounds like cue, queue · Rhymes with -uː

letter Q · qs · q's

  1. letter, lowercase The seventeenth letter of the English alphabet, called cue and written in the Latin script.

number Q · qs · q's

  1. lowercase, number The seventeenth numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called cue and written in the Latin script.

q²

  • /kjuː/ letter, name
  • /k/ phoneme
  • /kw/ phoneme

Sounds like cue, queue · Rhymes with -uː

Where it comes from

Abbreviation.

noun q's

  1. abbreviation Abbreviation of non-automatic qualification, indicating an athlete who qualifies to the next round either by time as a fastest loser (in track events) or by position without achieving the qualifying target (in field events).
  2. abbreviation Abbreviation of question We can't BELIEVE it's been #9YearsofLittleMix?! Aside from the girls slaying every #BRITs look they've had, what's your fave mem? (we know it's a hard q!) 👀💖

q³

  • /kjuː/ letter, name
  • /k/ phoneme
  • /kw/ phoneme

Sounds like cue, queue · Rhymes with -uː

Where it comes from

From Latin quaque (“every”).

determiner

  1. Each, every (with a time interval). 175 mg/m² q 3 wks

Q⁴

Where it comes from

From Latin Q.

letter q · Qs · Q's

  1. letter, uppercase The seventeenth letter of the English alphabet, called cue and written in the Latin script.

number q · Qs · Q's

  1. uppercase, number The seventeenth numeral symbol of the English alphabet, called cue and written in the Latin script.

Q⁵

  • /kjuː/ UK, name
  • /kju/ US, name
  • /kjʉː/ New Zealand, name

Sounds like cue, queue, Kew · Rhymes with -uː

Where it comes from

Shortening

noun Qs

  1. abbreviation, countable, uncountable Abbreviation of question or questions. Q and A
  2. abbreviation, countable, uncountable Abbreviation of quarter
  3. UK, countable, slang, uncountable A quarter ounce of a drug. Yeah, alright, started with a Q, didn't wait in line
  4. abbreviation, countable, ellipsis, uncountable Ellipsis of Q factor (“quality factor”).
  5. abbreviation, countable, uncountable Abbreviation of quasar
  6. abbreviation, countable, uncountable Abbreviation of qualified

    Opposite: DNQ

  7. countable, uncountable American Library Association abbreviation of quarto (“book size”).
  8. abbreviation, countable, uncountable Abbreviation of queen 1.e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. d4 exd4 4. e5 Ne4 5. Qxd4 d5 6. exd6 e.p. Nxd6 7. Bg5 Nc6 8. Qe3+ Be7 9. Nbd2 0-0 10. 0-0-0 Re8 11. Kb1 (=)
  9. countable, uncountable Alternative letter-case form of q (“every”).
  10. abbreviation, countable, uncountable Abbreviation of qualification

proper noun

  1. Arthur Quiller-Couch.
  2. abbreviation, followed by an ayah (verse) number Abbreviation of Quran
  3. The hypothetical common source (logion collection) of the Gospels of Matthew and Luke (from German Quelle (“source”)); all the non-Marcan shared material in those gospels (not always considered a single document) In comparing Q 10:10–11 and Mark 6:11, there is no reliable way to determine which exact form of the saying is more primitive, the third person account of Mark or the direct speech recorded in Q.
  4. US, abbreviation Abbreviation of QAnon (“anonymous poster on anonymous online message boards who originated a pro-Trump conspiracy theory”). In this fantasy world, all of the far right’s wildest dreams come true: Q promises that Clinton, Obama, Podesta, Abedin, and even McCain are all either arrested and wearing secret police-issued ankle monitors, or just about to be indicted; that the Steele dossier is a total fabrication personally pa
  5. colloquial, with the Nickname for Albuquerque: a city in New Mexico, United States. “So you’re from the Q?” he said. / “The Q?” said Donovan. / “Albuquerque,” said Jason.

Q⁶

Where it comes from

From James Bond films, the quartermaster being codenamed Q, from the novels by Ian Flemming, where he created Q-branch, which creates secret devices hidden in plain sight, named after Q-ships, heavily armed merchantmen that look like normal merchantmen.

noun Qs

  1. slang A gadget master, gadget creator.

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@misc{q_2026,
  title = {q},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/q},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}