chess

noun/tʃɛs/

Frequency rank: #4,538 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)

Meaning

A board game for two players, each starting with sixteen pieces, played on a checkered board.

Illustration for the English word “chess”

Example sentence

My grandfather taught me how to play chess when I was seven years old.

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