knots
Definitions
Noun
- 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
Verb
- Make into knots; make knots out of
- Tie or fasten into a knot
- Tangle or complicate
Fragment
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Sounds Like
Words that sound like the term "knots".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notes | 1 | 57 |
| 2 | nights | 1 | 33 |
| 3 | nuts | 1 | 21 |
| 4 | night's | 1 | 13 |
| 5 | knights | 1 | 8 |
| 6 | nets | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | nate's | 1 | 2 |
| 8 | newts | 1 | 1 |
| 9 | gnats | 1 | 0 |
| 10 | knight's | 1 | 0 |
| 11 | knits | 1 | 0 |
| 12 | knott's | 1 | 0 |
| 13 | knotts | 1 | 0 |
| 14 | knuts | 1 | 0 |
| 15 | nats | 1 | 0 |
| 16 | neitz | 1 | 0 |
| 17 | netz | 1 | 0 |
| 18 | newt's | 1 | 0 |
| 19 | nights' | 1 | 0 |
| 20 | nitz | 1 | 0 |
| 21 | note's | 1 | 0 |
| 22 | notes' | 1 | 0 |
| 23 | nots | 1 | 0 |
| 24 | notz | 1 | 0 |
| 25 | nut's | 1 | 0 |
| 26 | o'nuts | 2 | 0 |
| 27 | schnitz | 1 | 0 |
| 28 | snout's | 1 | 0 |
| 29 | snouts | 1 | 0 |
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Results:
Term
Definitions: 10
Fragments: 1
Sound Alikes: 29
Spelled Like: 20
Words that Follow: 0
Words that Precede: 0
Statistically Associated: 0
Consonant Matches: 2
Freq: The frequency is a relative score of how often the word appears in standard English text.
This Word in the News:
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