fight
/fəɪt/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.23 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "My grandfather fought the Nazis in World War II."
- "Our soldiers fought the battle just over that hill."
- "I have fought a good fight."
- "Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses."
- "His Suff’rings ſhine, and ſpread a Glory round him; Greatly unfortunate, he fights the Cauſe Of Honour, Virtue, Liberty, and Rome."
- "was left to fight his way through the world."
Etymology
From Middle English fighten (“to fight”), from Old English feohtan (“to fight, combat, strive”), from Proto-West Germanic *fehtan (“to fight”), from Proto-Germanic *fehtaną (“to comb, tease, shear, struggle with”), from Proto-Indo-European *peḱ- (“to comb, shear”). Cognate with Scots fecht (“to fight”), West Frisian fjochtsje, fjuchte (“to fight”), Dutch vechten (“to fight”), Low German fechten (“to fight”), German fechten (“to fence”), Danish fægte (“to fence, to fight (using blade weapons)”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk fekte (“to fence”), Swedish fäkta (“to fence, to fight (using blade weapons), to wave vigorously (and carelessly) with one's arms”), Latin pectō (“comb, thrash”, verb), Albanian pjek (“to hit, strive, fight”), Ancient Greek πέκω (pékō, “comb or card wool”, verb). Related also to Old English feht (“wool, shaggy pelt, fleece”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /fəɪt/
- British English: /faɪt/
Usage
Inflected Forms
fights (present, singular)
fighting (participle, present)
fought (past)
fit (dated, past)
fought (participle, past)
fit (dated, participle)
foughten (archaic, participle)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
fought (first person, past)
fightest (archaic, present)
fought (past, second person)