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The word plight is in the Wiktionary

23 short excerpts of Wiktionnary (A collaborative project to produce a free-content dictionary.)

— English words —
  • plight n. A dire or unfortunate situation.
  • plight n. (Now rare) A (neutral) condition or state.
  • plight n. (Obsolete) Good health.
  • plight n. (Now chiefly dialectal) Responsibility for ensuing consequences; risk; danger; peril.
  • plight n. (Now chiefly dialectal) An instance of danger or peril; a dangerous moment or situation.
  • plight n. (Now chiefly dialectal) Blame; culpability; fault; wrong-doing; sin; crime.
  • plight n. (Now chiefly dialectal) One’s office; duty; charge.
  • plight n. (Archaic) That which is exposed to risk; that which is plighted or pledged; security; a gage; a pledge.
  • plight v. (Transitive, now rare) To expose to risk; to pledge.
  • plight v. (Transitive) Specifically, to pledge (One’s troth etc.) as part of a marriage ceremony.
  • plight v. (Reflexive) To promise (oneself) to someone, or to do something.
  • plight v. (Obsolete) To weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.
  • plight n. (Obsolete) A network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment.
— English words, defined in French —
  • plight n. (Désuet) Danger, risque.
  • plight n. (Archaïsme) Chose soumise à risque, gage.
  • plight v. (Transitif) (Rare) Exposer au risque, promettre.
  • plight v. (Transitif) (Spécialement) Promettre dans le cadre d’une cérémonie de mariage.
  • plight v. (Pronominal) Se promettre de faire quelque chose.
  • plight n. Sinistre.
  • plight n. Condition, état, ou risque d’exposition au danger.
  • plight v. (Désuet) Plier.
  • plight n. (Désuet) Pliure.
— English word, defined in Spanish —
  • plight s. Apuro, aprieto.
65 English words from 13 English definitions

Archaic Blame braid ceremony charge chiefly condition consequences crime culpability danger dangerous dialectal dire doing duty ensuing etc expose exposed fault fold for gage garment Good health instance marriage moment network neutral now Obsolete of␣a office One oneself part peril plait pledge pledged plighted promise rare rarely Reflexive Responsibility risk security sin situation someone something Specifically state that Transitive troth unfortunate weave which wrong wrong-doing

14 English words from 10 foreign definitions

cadre chose Condition danger dans Exposer exposition faire gage Plier Pronominal Rare risque Sinistre

16 foreign words from 10 foreign definitions

aprieto Apuro Archaïsme cérémonie Désuet état mariage Pliure promettre quelque quelque␣chose Se␣promettre soumise Spécialement Transitif une

10 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

plights plighty plighted plighter plightly plighters plightful plighting plightings plightless

25 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

uplights toplights top␣lights uplighted uplighter droplights drop␣lights lamplights looplights stoplights stop␣lights toplighted unplighted uplighters uplighting lamplighted lamplighter striplights toplighting lamplighters trothplights trothplighted trothplighting lamplighter␣group lamplighter␣groups

14 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

uplight yplight toplight top␣light unplight upplight droplight drop␣light lamplight looplight stoplight stop␣light striplight trothplight

8 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

IGH 'igh ight lig lig. light Light plig

3 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

Gil GIL THG

8 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

light-up light␣up pightel pightle plights plighty uplight yplight

4 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

light Light lithp pight

7 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

alight blight flight plyght slight Slight X-light

3 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

light Light pight


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