wright

• IPA^(key): /ɹaɪt/

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• Rhymes: -aɪt
• Homophones: right, rite, write, Wright

From Middle English wrighte, wriȝte, wruhte, wurhte, from Old English wyrhta (“worker, maker”), from Proto-West Germanic *wurhtijō (as in *wurkijan). Cognate with wrought, dated Dutch wrecht, work.

wright (plural wrights)

1. (archaic except in compounds and in Scotland, dated) A builder or maker of something.

wright (third-person singular simple present wrights, present participle wrought, simple past and past participle wrighten)

1. (dated) Misspelling of write.