Quipu is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.
You can make 19 anagrams from letters in quipu (ipquu).
1695-1705; Spanish Quechua khipu
The quipu, or knotted reckoning cord was in use in Peru, as in China.
The quipu has been sent round, and the chiefs who will be present at the meeting are twenty in number.
The Peruvians adopted a totally different and unique system of records, that by means of the quipu.
It, however, seldom happened that they had to read a quipu without some verbal commentary.
After these words he sat down, and threw in his quipu—a movement which was imitated by the other chiefs.
In every town some expert men were appointed to tie the knots of the quipu, and to explain them.
Which are the nations that accepted the quipu, and sent their warriors to the gathering place?
The lengths of the strings used in making the quipu were various.
The instrument consisting of these strings and knots was called the quipu.
The first material book was doubtless a series of knots well represented by the quipu (Fig. 2) of the ancient Peruvians.