Yes, queens is a Scrabble word!

Verb

1. Promote to a queen, as of a pawn in chess

2. Become a queen

Noun

1. A borough of New York City

2. The only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs

3. A female sovereign ruler

4. The wife or widow of a king

5. Something personified as a woman who is considered the best or most important of her kind

6. A competitor who holds a preeminent position

7. Offensive term for an openly homosexual man

8. One of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen

9. (chess) the most powerful piece

10. 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

11. Female cat