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Is wight a Scrabble word?

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

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Is wight a Scrabble UK word?

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

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5-letter words (1 found)

WIGHT,

4-letter words (5 found)

THIG,TWIG,WHIG,WHIT,WITH,

3-letter words (6 found)

GHI,GIT,HIT,TIG,WIG,WIT,

2-letter words (4 found)

GI,HI,IT,TI,

You can make 16 words from wight according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of wight

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Definitions and meaning of wight

wight

Pronunciation

  • enPR: wīt, IPA(key): /waɪt/
  • Rhymes: -aɪt
  • Homophones: wite, white (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English wight, wiȝt, from Old English wiht (“thing, creature”), from Proto-West Germanic *wihti, from Proto-Germanic *wihtiz (“thing, creature”, literally “being”), from Proto-Indo-European *wekti- (“cause, sake, thing”), from *wekʷ- (“to say, tell”).

Cognate with Scots wicht (“creature, being, human”), Dutch wicht (“child, baby, girl”), German Low German Wicht (“girl; wight”), German Wicht (“wretch, wight, little creature, scoundrel”), Norwegian Bokmål vette (“underground creature, gnome”), Swedish vätte (“underground creature, gnome”), Icelandic vættur (“imp, elf”). Doublet of whit.

Noun

wight (plural wights)

  1. (archaic) A living creature, especially a human being.
    • c. 1872, a Knight's tour cryptotour poem, possibly by Howard Staunton, lines 1 and 2:
      "The man that hath no love of chess/Is truth to say a sorry wight."
  2. (paganism) A being of one of the Nine Worlds of Heathen belief, especially a nature spirit, elf or ancestor.
  3. (poetic) A ghost, deity or other supernatural entity.
  4. (fantasy) A wraith-like creature.
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English wight, from Old Norse vígt, neuter of vígr (“skilled in fighting, of age”), from Proto-Germanic *wīgaz (“fighting”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to fight”). Cognate with Old English wīġ.

Adjective

wight

  1. (archaic, except in dialects) Brave, valorous, strong.
  2. (UK dialectal, obsolete) Strong; stout; active.

References

  • “wight” in the Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, 1974 edition.

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English wiht.

Alternative forms

  • wighte, wyghȝt, wiȝt, wiȝte, whiȝt, whytt, whighte, wyght, whyȝt, wyt, wiht, wihht, whiȝt, weiȝtt, wyȝt, wyȝte, wyhte, wyte, wicht

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wixt/, /hwixt/
  • Rhymes: -ixt

Noun

wight (plural wightes or wighten)

  1. A creature, a being.
  2. A person, a human being.
    • 1368-1372, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Book of the Duchess, line 579:
    • 1379-1380, Geoffrey Chaucer, The House of Fame, line 1830-1831:
  3. A demon, monster
  4. A small amount (of a quantity, length, distance or time); a whit.
Descendants
  • English: wight, whit
  • Scots: wicht
References
  • “wight, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-04.

Etymology 2

From Old Norse vígt. See vígr (“ready to fight”).

Alternative forms

  • wihte, wict, wiȝht, wyȝte, wyght, whyȝt, wyȝt, white, vight, wiȝhte, weight, vit

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wixt/, /wikt/

Adjective

wight (comparative wighter, superlative wightest)

  1. brave, bold
  2. powerful, strong, vigorous
  3. quick, speedy
Descendants
  • English: wight (obsolete or dialectal)
References
  • “wight, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-04.

Adverb

wight

  1. immediately
  2. vigorously
References
  • “wight, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-04.

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