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Is plight a Scrabble word?

Yes, plight is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 12 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of plight?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (now rare) A (neutral) condition or state.Examples: "although hee live in as good plight and health as may be, yet he chafeth, he scoldeth, he brawleth, he fighteth, he sweareth, and biteth, as the most boistrous and tempestuous master of France[…]."archaic

2. (obsolete) Good health.Examples: "All wayes shee sought him to restore to plight, / With herbs, with charms, with counsel, and with teares[…]."obsolete

noun (English)

1. (now chiefly dialectal) Responsibility for ensuing consequences; risk; danger; peril.dialectal

2. (now chiefly dialectal) An instance of danger or peril; a dangerous moment or situation.dialectal

3. (now chiefly dialectal) Blame; culpability; fault; wrong-doing; sin; crime.dialectal

4. (now chiefly dialectal) One's office; duty; charge.dialectal

5. (archaic) That which is exposed to risk; that which is plighted or pledged; security; a gage; a pledge.Examples: "Haply, when I shall wed, That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry Half my love with him, half my care and duty"archaic

verb (English)

1. (transitive, now rare) To expose to risk; to pledge.archaictransitive

2. (transitive) Specifically, to pledge (one's troth etc.) as part of a marriage ceremony.transitive

3. (reflexive) To promise (oneself) to someone, or to do something.Examples: "I ask what I have done to deserve it, one daughter hobnobbing with radicals and the other planning to plight herself to a criminal."reflexive

verb (English)

1. (obsolete) To weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.Examples: "ſhe wore a plighted Garmend of divers colours,"obsolete

noun (English)

1. (obsolete) A network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment.Examples: "Many a folded plight."obsolete

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "plight"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "plight"?

Scrabble
12 points
P3
L1
I1
G2
H4
T1
Words With Friends
14 points
P4
L2
I1
G3
H3
T1

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