castle


castle - noun

  • a large and stately mansion
  • a large building formerly occupied by a ruler and fortified against attack
  • (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard
  • interchanging the positions of the king and a rook

    • castle - verb

    • move the king two squares toward a rook and in the same move the rook to the square next past the king

    castle - thesaurus

    castling   palace   rook  


    View spelling list Other ways of spelling the /ar/ sound and learn about the word castle in the Spellzone English spelling course, Unit 10. Spelling choices for /ar/ sound; ar, a.

    Scrabble score for castle

    c is 3 a is 1 s is 1 t is 1 l is 1 e is 1
    Scrabble score = 8

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