castle

castle is a 6-letter English word with 10 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A fortified residence, especially that of a prince or nobleman; a fortress. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 10 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A fortified residence, especially that of a prince or nobleman; a fortress.
2. noun. Any strong, imposing, and stately mansion.
3. noun. A small tower, as on a ship, or an elephant's back.
4. noun. A piece, made to represent a castle, used in the game of chess; a rook.
5. intransitive verb. To move the castle to the square next to king, and then the king around the castle to the square next beyond it, for the purpose of covering the king.
6. noun. interchanging the positions of the king and a rook

   Synonyms: castling

7. noun. a large building formerly occupied by a ruler and fortified against attack
8. noun. (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard

   Synonyms: rook

9. noun. a large and stately mansion

   Synonyms: palace

10. verb. move the king two squares toward a rook and in the same move the rook to the square next past the king

Synonyms

castling, rook, palace

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in castle:

cleats, eclats, scalet, sclate

Common word forms

castled, castles, castling

Words from these letters

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