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Is plight a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word plight is a Scrabble US word. The word plight is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

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Is plight a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word plight is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

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Yes. The word plight is a Words With Friends word. The word plight is worth 14 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (1 found)

PLIGHT,

5-letter words (2 found)

LIGHT,PIGHT,

4-letter words (7 found)

GILT,GLIT,HILT,HIPT,LITH,PITH,THIG,

3-letter words (15 found)

GHI,GIP,GIT,HIP,HIT,LIG,LIP,LIT,PHI,PHT,PIG,PIT,TIG,TIL,TIP,

2-letter words (6 found)

GI,HI,IT,LI,PI,TI,

You can make 31 words from plight according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of plight

plight

Pronunciation

  • enPR: plīt, IPA(key): /plaɪt/
  • Rhymes: -aɪt

Etymology 1

From Middle English plit (“fold, wrinkle, bad situation”), conflation of Middle English pliht, plight (“risky promise, peril”) (from Old English pliht "danger, risk") and Anglo-Norman plit, plyte (“fold, condition”), from Old French pleit (“condition, manner of folding”) (from Vulgar Latin *plictum, from Latin plicitum (“fold”)).

Noun

plight (plural plights)

  1. A dire or unfortunate situation. [from 14th c.]
  2. (now rare) A (neutral) condition or state. [from 14th c.]
  3. (obsolete) Good health. [14th–19th c.]
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English plight (“risk, danger”), from Old English pliht (“peril, risk, danger, damage, plight”), from Proto-West Germanic *plihti (“care, responsibility, duty”). A suffixed form of the root represented by Old English pleoh (“risk, danger, hurt, peril"; also "responsibility”) and plēon (“to endanger, risk”). Akin to Old English plihtan (“to endanger, compromise”). Cognate with Scots plicht (“responsibility, plight”), Dutch plicht, Low German plicht (“duty”), German Pflicht (“duty”), Danish pligt (“duty”), Yiddish פֿליכט (flikht). More at pledge.

Noun

plight (plural plights)

  1. (now chiefly dialectal) Responsibility for ensuing consequences; risk; danger; peril.
  2. (now chiefly dialectal) An instance of danger or peril; a dangerous moment or situation.
  3. (now chiefly dialectal) Blame; culpability; fault; wrong-doing; sin; crime.
  4. (now chiefly dialectal) One's office; duty; charge.
  5. (archaic) That which is exposed to risk; that which is plighted or pledged; security; a gage; a pledge.
Derived terms
  • plightful
  • plightly
Translations

Verb

plight (third-person singular simple present plights, present participle plighting, simple past and past participle plighted)

  1. (transitive, now rare) To expose to risk; to pledge.
  2. (transitive) Specifically, to pledge (one's troth etc.) as part of a marriage ceremony.
  3. (reflexive) To promise (oneself) to someone, or to do something.
Derived terms
  • plighter

Etymology 3

From Middle English plyghten, plyȝten, pleyȝten, pleiten, pliten, from the noun (see below).

Verb

plight (third-person singular simple present plights, present participle plighting, simple past and past participle plighted)

  1. (obsolete) To weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.

Etymology 4

From Middle English pliȝt, plight, plyt, pleit, from Anglo-Norman pleit (“pleat, fold”). More at plait.

Noun

plight (plural plights)

  2. (obsolete) A network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment.

Further reading

  • Plight in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Source: wiktionary.org