captain: meaning and words from its letters
7 letters · 11 letter points · starts with C · ends with N
Meaning of captain
noun
A chief or leader.
The person lawfully in command of a ship or other vessel.
Example: The captain is the last man to leave a sinking ship.
An army officer with a rank between the most senior grade of lieutenant and major.
A naval officer with a rank between commander and commodore.
Listed forms: captains.
Source: Wiktionary — captain.
verb
- intransitive
To act as captain
- transitive
To exercise command of a ship, aircraft or sports team.
Listed forms: captains, captaining, captained.
Source: Wiktionary — captain.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for captain.
noun
the naval officer in command of a military ship
noun
a policeman in charge of a precinct
- police captain
- police chief
noun
an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship
noun
the leader of a group of people
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is captain in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of captain
C(3) + A(1) + P(3) + T(1) + A(1) + I(1) + N(1) = 11 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of captain
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from captain
62 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in captain. Showing up to 24, longest first.