Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word king. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in king.
Definitions and meaning of king
king
Alternative forms
kyng, kynge(archaic)
kinge(obsolete)
Pronunciation
enPR: kĭng, IPA(key): /kʰɪŋ/
(US, pre-/ŋ/ tensing), IPA(key): /kiŋ/
Rhymes: -ɪŋ, -iŋ
Etymology 1
From Middle Englishking, kyng, from Old Englishcyng, cyning(“king”), from Proto-West Germanic*kuning, from Proto-Germanic*kuningaz, *kunungaz(“king”), equivalent to kin + -ing. Doublet of cyning and knez.
Cognate with Scotskeeng(“king”), North Frisianköning(“king”), West Frisiankening(“king”), Dutchkoning(“king”), Low GermanKoning, Köning(“king”), GermanKönig(“king”), Danishkonge(“king”), Norwegiankonge, Swedishkonung, kung(“king”), Icelandickonungur, kóngur(“king”), Polishksiądz(“priest”), Russianкнязь(knjazʹ, “prince”), Old Church Slavonicкънѧѕь(kŭnędzĭ), Romanianchinez, Finnishkuningas(“king”), Estoniankuningas, Ingriankunigas, Kareliankuninkas, Livvikuńingas, Ludiankuńingas, Vepskuningaz, Võrokuning and Votickunikaz. Eclipsed non-native Middle Englishroy(“king”) (Early Modern English roy), borrowed from Old Frenchroi, rei, rai(“king”).
Noun
king (pluralkings)
A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy; in an absolute monarchy, the supreme ruler of his nation.
The monarch with the most power and authority in a monarchy, regardless of sex.
A powerful or majorly influential person.
(countable or uncountable) Something that has a preeminent position.
A component of certain games.
(chess) The principal chess piece, that players seek to threaten with unavoidable capture to result in a victory by checkmate. It is often the tallest piece, with a symbolic crown with a cross at the top.
(card games) A playing card with the letter "K" and the image of a king on it, the thirteenth card in a given suit.
Hypernym:court card
A checker (a piece of checkers/draughts) that reached the farthest row forward, thus becoming crowned (either by turning it upside-down, or by stacking another checker on it) and gaining more freedom of movement.
The central pin or skittle in bowling games.
(UK, slang) A king skin.
A male dragonfly; a drake.
A king-sized bed.
(graph theory) A vertex in a directed graph which can reach every other vertex via a path with a length of at most 2.
king (third-person singular simple presentkings, present participlekinging, simple past and past participlekinged)
To crown king, to make (a person) king.
1982, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, South Atlantic Review, Volume 47, page 16,
The kinging of Macbeth is the business of the first part of the play […].
To rule over as king.
To perform the duties of a king.
1918, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, The Railroad Trainman, Volume 35, page 675,
He had to do all his kinging after supper, which left him no time for roystering with the nobility and certain others.
To assume or pretend preeminence (over); to lord it over.
To promote a piece of draughts/checkers that has traversed the board to the opposite side, that piece subsequently being permitted to move backwards as well as forwards.
To dress and perform as a drag king.
Translations
Etymology 2
Noun
king (pluralkings)
Alternative form of qing(“Chinese musical instrument”)
Anagrams
gink
Estonian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic*kenkä. Cognate with Finnishkenkä.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈkinɡ̊/, [ˈkiŋɡ̊]
Noun
king (genitivekinga, partitivekinga)
shoe
Declension
Quotations
Kapampangan
Alternative forms
keng
qng̃, qng, queng, quing(Spanish variant)
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /kɪŋ/, [kɪŋ]
Preposition
king
indirect object marker: of, to, at, on, in, into, onto, among, around, for
Manx
Noun
kingm
inflection of kione:
genitive singular
nominative plural
Mutation
Middle English
Alternative forms
kenin, kening, kinig(in compounds, toponymic)
gug, kug(in compounds, influenced by Old Norse (see etymology))
Inherited from the Old Englishcyning, from Proto-West Germanic*kuning, from Proto-Germanic*kuningaz. The forms kug (attested in the compounds kugdom, kuglond, and kugriche) and gug (attested in the compound guglond) show the influence of the Old Norsekonungr, whence they borrow their root vowel. The early forms featuring syncope (chinge, chinȝ, cing, and cinȝ) may have long ī.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /kinɡ/, [kiŋɡ]
Noun
king (nominative pluralkinges, also the early formskingasorkingæs)
king(monarch)
king(chess piece)
Derived terms
Descendants
English: king (see there for further descendants)
Scots: keeng, king
Yola: kinge, king
References
“king, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from Englishking.
Adjective
king
(slang) great, awesome
Synonym:kunglig
(games)Synonym of ruta(“foursquare”).
Usage notes
Uninflected.
References
Slangopedia
Tok Pisin
Etymology
From Englishking.
Noun
king
king
Yola
Noun
king
Alternative form of kinge
References
Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 96