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Is knight a Scrabble word?

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

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Is knight a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word knight is a Scrabble UK word and has 14 points:

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Is knight a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word knight is a Words With Friends word. The word knight is worth 15 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (1 found)

KNIGHT,

5-letter words (4 found)

KIGHT,NIGHT,THING,THINK,

4-letter words (11 found)

GINK,HING,HINT,KING,KITH,KNIT,NIGH,THIG,THIN,TING,TINK,

3-letter words (15 found)

GHI,GIN,GIT,HIN,HIT,ING,INK,KHI,KIN,KIT,NIT,NTH,TIG,TIK,TIN,

2-letter words (6 found)

GI,HI,IN,IT,KI,TI,

You can make 37 words from knight according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of knight

knight

Pronunciation

  • enPR: nīt, IPA(key): /naɪt/
  • Rhymes: -aɪt
  • Homophones: night, nite

Etymology 1

From Middle English knight, knyght, kniht, from Old English cniht (“boy; servant, knight”), from Proto-West Germanic *kneht.

Alternative forms

  • knyght

Noun

knight (plural knights)

  1. (historical) A young servant or follower; a trained military attendant in service of a lord.
  2. (historical) A minor nobleman with an honourable military rank who had served as a page and squire.
  3. (by extension) An armored and mounted warrior of the Middle Ages.
  4. (law, historical) A person obliged to provide knight service in exchange for maintenance of an estate held in knight's fee.
  5. (modern) A person on whom a knighthood has been conferred by a monarch.
  6. (literary) A brave, chivalrous and honorable man devoted to a noble cause or love interest.
  8. (chess) A chess piece, often in the shape of a horse's head, that is moved two squares in one direction and one at right angles to that direction in a single move, leaping over any intervening pieces.
  9. (card games, dated) A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.
  10. (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Ypthima.
  11. (modern) Any mushroom belonging to genus Tricholoma.
Synonyms
  • (chess piece): horse (informal)
Hyponyms
  • knight banneret, banneret
Coordinate terms
  • knight's fee, knight service
Derived terms
Translations
See also
  • ♘, ♞
  • Appendix:Chess pieces

Etymology 2

From Middle English knighten, kniȝten, from the noun. Cognate with Middle High German knehten.

Verb

knight (third-person singular simple present knights, present participle knighting, simple past and past participle knighted)

  1. (transitive) To confer knighthood upon.
  2. (chess, transitive) To promote (a pawn) to a knight.
Synonyms
  • dub
Derived terms
Translations

See also

  • paladin
  • baronet

References

  • “knight”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Middle English

Noun

knight

  1. Alternative form of knyght

Source: wiktionary.org