Scrabble & Words with friends points
- knots is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 9
- knots is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 9
- knots is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 10
Definition of knots
- soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design (noun)
Synonyms
- burl
- slub
- tangle or complicate (verb)
Synonyms
- ravel
- tangle
- something twisted and tight and swollen (noun)
Examples
- their muscles stood out in knots
- his stomach was in knots
Synonyms
- gnarl
- a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere (noun)
Synonyms
- calidris canutus
- grayback
- greyback
- a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged (noun)
Examples
- 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
- a small knot of women listened to his sermon
- the bird had a knot of feathers forming a crest
- make into knots; make knots out of (verb)
Examples
- 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
- knot the shoelaces
See definition of knots in Merriam Webster