Definition of knot

Scrabble & Words with friends points

• knot is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 8
• knot is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 8
• knot is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 9

Definition of knot

• soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. burl
  2. slub
• tangle or complicate (verb)

  Synonyms

  1. ravel
  2. tangle
• something twisted and tight and swollen (noun)

  Examples

  1. their muscles stood out in knots
  2. his stomach was in knots

  Synonyms

  1. gnarl
• a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere (noun)

  Synonyms

  1. calidris canutus
  2. grayback
  3. greyback
• a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged (noun)

  Examples

  1. the saw buckled when it hit a knot
• any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object (noun)
• a tight cluster of people or things (noun)

  Examples

  1. a small knot of women listened to his sermon
  2. the bird had a knot of feathers forming a crest
• make into knots; make knots out of (verb)

  Examples

  1. She knotted her fingers
• (of ships and wind) a unit of speed equal to one nautical mile per hour or about 1.15 statute miles per hour (noun)
• tie or fasten into a knot (verb)

  Examples

  1. knot the shoelaces

See definition of knot in Merriam Webster