Knot is valid Scrabble Word

Is knot a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
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4 letters word
8 points in Scrabble
9 points in WWF

Definitions for KNOT in dictionary:

VERB:

to tie with a closed loop
fasten with a knot
make (a carpet or other decorative item) with knots.
make (something, especially hair) tangled
cause (a muscle) to become tense and hard.
(of the stomach) tighten as a result of nervousness or tension.
To tie in or with, or form into, a knot or knots; to form a knot on, as a rope; to entangle.
To unite closely; to knit together.
To entangle or perplex; to puzzle.
To form knots or joints, as in a cord, a plant, etc.; to become entangled.

NOUN:

a fastening made by looping a piece of string, rope, or something similar on itself and tightening it
a particular method of making a knot
an ornamental ribbon.
a tangled mass in something such as hair or wool.
a knob, protuberance, or node in a stem, branch, or root.
a hard mass formed in a tree trunk at the intersection with a branch, resulting in a round cross-grained piece in timber when cut through.
a hard lump of tissue in the body.
an unpleasant feeling of tightness or tension in a part of the body
a small tightly packed group of people
a unit of speed equivalent to one nautical mile per hour, used especially of ships, aircraft, or winds.
a length marked by knots on a log line, as a measure of speed
a small, relatively short-billed sandpiper, with a reddish-brown or blackish breast in the breeding season.
type of fastening
A fastening together of the pars or ends of one or more threads, cords, ropes, etc., by any one of various ways of tying or entangling.
A lump or loop formed in a thread, cord, rope. etc., as at the end, by tying or interweaving it upon itself.
An ornamental tie, as of a ribbon.
A bond of union; a connection; a tie.
Something not easily solved; an intricacy; a difficulty; a perplexity; a problem.
A figure the lines of which are interlaced or intricately interwoven, as in embroidery, gardening, etc.
A cluster of persons or things; a collection; a group; a hand; a clique; as, a knot of politicians.
A portion of a branch of a tree that forms a mass of woody fiber running at an angle with the grain of the main stock and making a hard place in the timber. A loose knot is generally the remains of a dead branch of a tree covered by later woody growth.
A knob, lump, swelling, or protuberance.
A protuberant joint in a plant.
The point on which the action of a story depends; the gist of a matter.
See Node.
A division of the log line, serving to measure the rate of the vessel\'s motion. Each knot on the line bears the same proportion to a mile that thirty seconds do to an hour. The number of knots which run off from the reel in half a minute, therefore, shows the number of miles the vessel sails in an hour.
A nautical mile, or 6080.27 feet; as, when a ship goes eight miles an hour, her speed is said to be eight knots.
A kind of epaulet. See Shoulder knot.
A sandpiper (Tringa canutus), found in the northern parts of all the continents, in summer. It is grayish or ashy above, with the rump and upper tail coverts white, barred with dusky. The lower parts are pale brown, with the flanks and under tail coverts white. When fat it is prized by epicures. Called also dunne.
a tight cluster of people or things
any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object
a hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged
something twisted and tight and swollen
a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude
soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design
a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to tie in a knot (a closed loop)

Words related to KNOT

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Words that contain KNOT

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How to use KNOT in a sentence

Her wedding necklace of seed pearls was around her neck, and a tall comb of tortoise shell and pearls rose from the low-coiled knot of her shining hair.
He knew how to tie a good knot and was proud of the fact.
She might beat us by a knot in the hour, and, being ten miles astern, there was still the hope of its falling dark before she could close.
I thought that even this improvement made a difference of half a knot in my movement.
His brows were tied into a knot, and he cast such a glance at my poor Bart from under them that one by one the cards came fluttering down from his nerveless fingers.
Baffled for a long time by his enemy, Humphries became enraged, and, seizing upon a jagged knot of light wood, he thrust it against one of the legs of Blonay.
It was the little Aurore herself whose unconscious hand severed the Gordian knot of the family difficulties.
They resemble a bunch or knot of dark brown small rope or cord.
He jumped to the door, and there, in the dim light of the stairway leading down to the Graveyard of Genius, he saw a knot of men carrying another man, who was evidently helpless.
Dick, lying on his back and staring up at a knot in the woodwork over his bunk, received it placidly.

He grips the rope, not too firmly, holding the standing part and the side of the noose about half the length of the loop away from the knot.
Never tie a knot in a line that you expect to use with rod and reel.
It did certainly occur to me to cut the Gordian knot by owning the truth.
You will see how the Third Act of a comedy which had tied itself in this kind of a knot simply could not be played.
Tom found a stick with a projecting knot that he could use as a hook, and with it he hauled the body out into plain view.
At Pisa he was surrounded by a knot of his own countrymen, friends and acquaintances of the Shelleys.
The king asked if there was anyone else about the house that would try to take the heads off the knot.
Eric was with a little knot of his chief friends, enjoying the sea breeze as they sat on the grass.
He then took his two sheets, tied them together in a firm knot, wound one end tightly round the remaining bar, and let the other fall down the side of the building.
In the neighbourhood of the reefs, the stream sometimes sets at the rate of a knot or in some cases at two knots, but for a small distance it is scarcely perceptible.
A most sweit garden, the knot much larger than that at Hamilton and in better order.
Beneath her grey shooting-cap, also of homespun, her hair falls in two broad bands over the brows, and is gathered up at the back of the head in a plain Grecian knot.
The smallest tool, the knot in a thread, the ply in a cord, the curve of wrist or finger, each has special and proper delineation.
To show better what lies and fables these all are, there is one story that the first man and the first woman came from the knot of a cane which burst off from its plant.
Drusus himself was weary, and was glad to shake off the little knot of clients and retire to his chamber, preparatory for a bath and a change of clothes.
Laeca, catching sight of Lucius Ahenobarbus, just back from Baiae, and a little knot of kindred spirits about him, was in an instant pouring it all in their ears.
There, Guy instinctively looked at a mirror and examined the knot of his cravat.

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