pilot

pilot is a 5-letter English word with 15 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One employed to steer a vessel; a helmsman; a steersman. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 15 senses

Definitions

1. noun. One employed to steer a vessel; a helmsman; a steersman.
2. noun. Specifically, a person duly qualified, and licensed by authority, to conduct vessels into and out of a port, or in certain waters, for a fixed rate of fees.
3. noun. Figuratively: A guide; a director of another through a difficult or unknown course.
4. noun. An instrument for detecting the compass error.
5. noun. The cowcatcher of a locomotive.
6. transitive verb. To direct the course of, as of a ship, where navigation is dangerous.
7. transitive verb. Figuratively: To guide, as through dangers or difficulties.
8. noun. an inclined metal frame at the front of a locomotive to clear the track

   Synonyms: buffer, cowcatcher, fender

9. noun. small auxiliary gas burner that provides a flame to ignite a larger gas burner
10. noun. something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies

    "this painting is a copy of the original"

    Synonyms: archetype, original

11. noun. a program exemplifying a contemplated series; intended to attract sponsors
12. noun. someone who is licensed to operate an aircraft in flight
13. noun. a person qualified to guide ships through difficult waters going into or out of a harbor
14. verb. act as the navigator in a car, plane, or vessel and plan, direct, plot the path and position of the conveyance

    "Is anyone volunteering to navigate during the trip?"

    "Who was navigating the ship during the accident?"

    Synonyms: navigate

15. verb. operate an airplane

    "The pilot flew to Cuba"

    Synonyms: aviate, fly

Synonyms

buffer, cowcatcher, fender, archetype, original, navigate, aviate, fly

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in pilot:

polit

Common word forms

pilots, piloted, piloting, pilotless

Words from these letters

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