sight: meaning and words from its letters
5 letters · 9 letter points · starts with S · ends with T
Meaning of sight
noun
- uncountable
The sense or faculty by which objects are perceived through the agency of light; the sense by which we see.
Example: Sight is a precious gift.
- countable, uncountable
An act, instance, opportunity or possibility of seeing; the perception of objects by the eye; view (see also idiomatic expressions such as in sight, out of sight, catch sight of, etc.)
Example: The sight of him in his new uniform made us all proud.
- countable, uncountable
Something seen.
Example: The sight in front of me seemed somehow familiar.
- countable, in-plural, often, uncountable
Something worth seeing; a spectacle, either good or bad.
Example: We went to London and saw all the sights – Buckingham Palace, Tower Bridge, and so on.
Listed forms: sights, sicht.
Source: Wiktionary — sight.
verb
- transitive
To see; to get sight of (something); to register visually.
Example: to sight land from a ship
- transitive
To see; to get sight of (something); to register visually. To observe through, or as if through, a sight, to check the elevation, direction, levelness, or other characteristics of, especially when surveying or navigating.
- transitive
To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of.
Example: to sight a rifle or a cannon
- intransitive, transitive
To observe or aim (at something) using a (gun) sight.
Listed forms: sights, sighting, sighted, sicht.
Source: Wiktionary — sight.
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 sight.
noun
the ability to see; the visual faculty
- vision
- visual sense
- visual modality
noun
the range of vision
noun
the act of looking or seeing or observing
noun
(often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is sight in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of sight
S(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 sight
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 sight
24 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in sight. Showing up to 24, longest first.