Definitions for chessboard

chessboard chess·board

Spelling: [ches-bawrd, -bohrd]
IPA: /ˈtʃɛsˌbɔrd, -ˌboʊrd/

Chessboard is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 855 anagrams from letters in chessboard (abcdehorss).

Definitions for chessboard

noun

  1. the board, identical with a checkerboard, used for playing chess.

Origin of chessboard

1400-50; late Middle English. See chess1, board

Examples for chessboard

A chessboard was between them, and their attention was fixed on the game.

He paused and indicated the thinned-out ranks of pawns on the chessboard.

It was well known that he held a key position on the chessboard of politics.

Perceval prays God to direct him to the Castle of the chessboard.

Leo is strategic, the queen on the chessboard, the prime mover of the zodiac.

In A we use counters; in B we can employ rooks on a corner of a chessboard.

He replaced the pieces on the chessboard, and looked for the explanation of failure, but in vain.

The Cuban bent his brows as if he were reflecting over a chessboard.

“I like him,” she said, and stepped forward toward the chessboard.

Of the divine frivolity of laughter he was only capable over a chessboard.

Word Value for chessboard
Scrable

18

Words with friends

19

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