castle

1. 1.

   move the king two squares toward a rook and in the same move the rook to the square next past the king

   Broadermove

   chess

Other forms of castle

plural

castles·

past tense

castled·

present participle

castling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about castle

What does castle mean?

castle means "a large and stately mansion". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in castle?

castle has 2 syllables: cas-tle. The stress falls on "cas". In IPA it is /ˈkæsəl/.

What is another word for castle?

Close synonyms include palace, rook, castling. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is castle a common word?

castle is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with castle?

1 word rhymes with castle. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.