Word Type

Noun

Verb

The word "rook" can be used as noun and verb.

Word Relationships

Typical Location

castle chess set trees

Dbpedia Genus

corvus

Derived Terms

Johnny rook Rugby rook and rabbit rifle rook lift rook polynomial rook rifle rooker rookery rookish rookless rooklet rooklike rookwise rooky wrong rook pawn

Etymologically Related To

roc

Context

baseball british chess slang

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

cheat chess piece chessman chisel corvine bird rip off

Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)

Greek

Type Of (IsA)

bird black bird chess game piece chess part chess piece corvine bird crow firecracker piece of chess set tangible thing

Part Of

chess

Related Terms

squab ♖ ♜

Related Terms

betray bird castle castling cheat corvus frugilegus crow diagonally firecracker fog fortification mist piece rip off roke rookie ruck squab squat swindler tower

Synonym Network

castle cheat con do dupe have swindle swindler victimize

Used For

capture pawn capturing opponent's piece in chess flying getting checkmate guarding chess pieces moving in chess play chess with playing chess protecting king taking bishop taking chess pieces

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.