rook

rook is a 4-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, intransitive verb, transitive/intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Mist; fog. See Roke. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 8 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Mist; fog. See Roke.
2. intransitive verb. To squat; to ruck.
3. noun. One of the four pieces placed on the corner squares of the board; a castle.
4. noun. A European bird (Corvus frugilegus) resembling the crow, but smaller. It is black, with purple and violet reflections. The base of the beak and the region around it are covered with a rough, scabrous skin, which in old birds is whitish. It is gregarious in its habits. The name is also applied to related Asiatic species.
5. noun. A trickish, rapacious fellow; a cheat; a sharper.
6. transitive/intransitive verb. To cheat; to defraud by cheating.
7. noun. common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow
8. noun. (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard

   Synonyms: castle

9. verb. deprive of by deceit

   "He swindled me out of my inheritance"

   "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"

   Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, gip, goldbrick, gyp, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, scam, swindle

Synonyms

castle, bunco, con, defraud, diddle, gip, goldbrick, gyp, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, scam, swindle, victimize

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in rook:

kroo, okro

Common word forms

rooks, rooked, rooker, rooking

Words from these letters

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