night: meaning and words from its letters
5 letters · 9 letter points · starts with N · ends with T
Meaning of night
noun
- countable
The time when the Sun is below the horizon when the sky is dark.
Example: Most animals are awake at day and sleep at night.
- countable
The period of darkness beginning at the end of evening astronomical twilight when the sun is 18 degrees below the horizon, and ending at the beginning of morning astronomical twilight.
- countable
A period of time often defined in the legal system as beginning 30 minutes after sunset, and ending 30 minutes before sunrise.
- countable
An evening or night spent at a particular activity.
Example: a night on the town
Listed forms: nights, nite, neet.
Source: Wiktionary — night.
verb
- intransitive
To spend a night (in a place), to overnight.
Listed forms: nights, nighting, nighted, nite, neet.
Source: Wiktionary — night.
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 night.
noun
the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is night in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of night
N(1) + I(1) + G(2) + H(4) + T(1) = 9 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 night
1 other standard-list word uses exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from night
19 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in night. Showing up to 24, longest first.