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Yes. The word freight is a Scrabble US word. The word freight is worth 14 points in Scrabble:

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Is freight a Scrabble UK word?

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7-letter words (3 found)

FIGHTER,FREIGHT,REFIGHT,

6-letter words (2 found)

FRIGHT,REGIFT,

5-letter words (17 found)

EIGHT,FIGHT,FIRTH,FREIT,FRITH,GIRTH,GRIEF,GRIFT,GRITH,ITHER,REFIT,RIFTE,RIGHT,THEIR,THIEF,TIGER,TREIF,

4-letter words (30 found)

FIER,FIRE,FRET,FRIG,FRIT,GEIT,GERT,GIFT,GIRT,GITE,GRIT,HEFT,HEIR,HIRE,REFI,REFT,REIF,RIFE,RIFT,RITE,TEHR,TERF,THIG,THIR,TIER,TIGE,TIRE,TREF,TRIE,TRIG,

3-letter words (36 found)

EFT,ERF,ERG,ETH,FEG,FEH,FER,FET,FIE,FIG,FIR,FIT,GER,GET,GHI,GIE,GIF,GIT,HER,HET,HIE,HIT,IRE,REF,REG,REH,REI,RET,RIF,RIG,RIT,TEF,TEG,THE,TIE,TIG,

2-letter words (13 found)

EF,EH,ER,ET,FE,GI,HE,HI,IF,IT,RE,TE,TI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 102 words from freight according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of freight

freight

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: frāt, IPA(key): /fɹeɪt/
  • Rhymes: -eɪt

Etymology 1

From Late Middle English freight, freght, freyght [and other forms], a variant of fraught, fraght (“transport of goods or people, usually by water; transportation fee; transportation facilities; cargo or passengers of a ship; (figuratively) burden; ballast of a ship; goods; a charge”), from Middle Dutch vracht, vrecht, and Middle Low German vrecht (“cargo, freight; transportation fee”), from Old Saxon frāht, frēht, from Proto-West Germanic *fra- (from Proto-Germanic *fra- (prefix meaning ‘completely, fully’)) + *aihti (from Proto-Germanic *aihtiz (“possessions, property”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyḱ- (“to come into possession of, obtain; to own, possess”)).

The English word can be analysed as for- +‎ aught, and is a doublet of fraught.

Noun

freight (usually uncountable, plural freights)

  1. (uncountable) The transportation of goods (originally by water; now also (chiefly US) by land); also, the hiring of a vehicle or vessel for such transportation.
  2. (uncountable) Goods or items in transport; cargo, luggage.
  3. (countable) Payment for transportation.
  4. (figuratively)
    1. (countable) A burden, a load.
    2. (specifically, uncountable) Cultural or emotional associations.
  5. (countable, originally US, rail transport) Short for freight train.
Derived terms
Related terms
  • fraught (noun)
Translations

Etymology 2

The verb is derived from Late Middle English freighten, freghten, a variant of fraughten, fraghten (“to load (a ship with cargo or passengers); to hire (a ship) for transporting goods; to provide fully (with goods, money, etc.); to stow away”), and then either:

  • from fraught, fraght (noun) (see etymology 1) + -en (suffix forming the infinitive form of verbs); or
  • from Middle Dutch vrachten, vrechten (“to load (a ship with cargo or passengers); to hire (a ship) for transporting goods, to fraught”), from vracht, vrecht (noun) (see etymology 1) + -en (suffix forming the infinitive form of verbs).

The adjective is:

  • derived from Middle English freght, freight, freyght, the past participle of fraughten (verb) (see above); and/or
  • a contraction of freighted, the past participle of the verb.

Verb

freight (third-person singular simple present freights, present participle freighting, simple past and past participle freighted)

  1. (transitive)
    1. To load (a vehicle or vessel) with freight (cargo); also, to hire or rent out (a vehicle or vessel) to carry cargo or passengers.
    2. To transport (goods).
    3. (by extension) To load or store (goods, etc.).
    4. (figuratively) To carry (something) as if it is a burden or load.
  2. (intransitive, US, also figuratively) Chiefly followed by up: to carry as part of a cargo.
Conjugation
Derived terms
  • afreight
  • freightage
  • freighted (adjective)
  • freighter
  • freighting (noun)
Related terms
  • fraught (verb)
Translations

Adjective

freight (comparative more freight, superlative most freight)

  1. (obsolete) Freighted; laden.

References

Further reading

  • cargo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • freight transport on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Freight in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

  • fighter, refight

Source: wiktionary.org