4 letter words with UA

Our dictionary holds 20 4 letter words with ua, all exactly 4 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is QUAY, worth 16 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with Q than any other letter — 5 of them, about 25% of the list.

5 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (25%), including dual, aqua, quad, yuan, quay; the remaining 15 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.