checkmate
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 22
- Words With Friends
- 24
- Letters
- 9
Definition of checkmate
6 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
intj
- Word called out by the victor when making a move that wins the game.
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intj
- Word called out by the victor when making a move that wins the game.
- (broadly)Said when one has placed a person in a losing situation with no escape.
noun
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(countable, uncountable)The conclusive victory in a game of chess that occurs when an opponent's king is threatened with unavoidable capture.
“This immediately ends the game, provided that the move producing the checkmate position was in accordance with Article 3 and Articles 4.2 – 4.7.”
- (broadly, countable, figuratively, uncountable)Any losing situation with no escape; utter defeat.
verb
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(transitive)To put the king of an opponent into checkmate.
“My opponent checkmated me in four moves!”
“The game is won by the player who has checkmated his/her opponent’s king.”
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(broadly, transitive)To place in a losing situation that has no escape.
“Where is it? What does SCP-3125 look like? Its motivation, its origins, its modus operandi— how much of that can be known? Does it have to be known, to solve the problem? Does it matter how intelligent the intelligence is, once it's inside the box, once it's checkmated?”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English chekmat, from Old French eschec mat, from Arabic شَاه مَاتَ (šāh māta), from Classical Persian شاه مات (šāh māt, “the king [is] amazed”).
Words you can make from checkmate
125 playable · top: CHECK (16 pts)
Best play check 16 points7-letter words
1 word6-letter words
4 words5-letter words
15 words4-letter words
57 words- HACK 13 pts
- HECK 13 pts
- MACK 12 pts
- CHAM 11 pts
- CHEM 11 pts
- HAKE 11 pts
- KHAT 11 pts
- KHET 11 pts
- MACH 11 pts
- MECH 11 pts
- CAKE 10 pts
- KAME 10 pts
- MAKE 10 pts
- MEEK 10 pts
- TACK 10 pts
- ACHE 9 pts
- AHEM 9 pts
- CATH 9 pts
- CHAT 9 pts
- EACH 9 pts
- ECHE 9 pts
- ECHT 9 pts
- ETCH 9 pts
- HAEM 9 pts
- HAME 9 pts
- HEME 9 pts
- MATH 9 pts
- METH 9 pts
- TACH 9 pts
- TECH 9 pts
- THEM 9 pts
- ACME 8 pts
- AKEE 8 pts
- CAME 8 pts
- CECA 8 pts
- KEET 8 pts
- KETA 8 pts
- MACE 8 pts
- TAKE 8 pts
- TEAK 8 pts
- EATH 7 pts
- HAET 7 pts
- HATE 7 pts
- HEAT 7 pts
- THAE 7 pts
- THEE 7 pts
- CATE 6 pts
- CETE 6 pts
- MATE 6 pts
- MEAT 6 pts
- MEET 6 pts
- META 6 pts
- METE 6 pts
- TACE 6 pts
- TAME 6 pts
- TEAM 6 pts
- TEEM 6 pts
3-letter words
32 words- ACK 9 pts
- HAM 8 pts
- HEM 8 pts
- MEH 8 pts
- CAM 7 pts
- EEK 7 pts
- EKE 7 pts
- KAE 7 pts
- KAT 7 pts
- KEA 7 pts
- MAC 7 pts
- ETH 6 pts
- HAE 6 pts
- HAT 6 pts
- HET 6 pts
- THE 6 pts
- ACE 5 pts
- ACT 5 pts
- CAT 5 pts
- CEE 5 pts
- EME 5 pts
- MAE 5 pts
- MAT 5 pts
- MET 5 pts
- TAM 5 pts
- TEC 5 pts
- ATE 3 pts
- EAT 3 pts
- ETA 3 pts
- TAE 3 pts
- TEA 3 pts
- TEE 3 pts
2-letter words
15 wordsHooks
2 extensions · 2 back
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