The variant knot names are included in the list with redirecting links to the most formal name. If you're not sure where to start, try the "King of Knots", the Bowline.

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A

• adjustable bend
• adjustable hitch
• adjustable loop
• albright knot
• alpine butterfly bend
• alpine butterfly knot
• alpine butterfly loop
• alpine coil
• alternate ring hitching
• anchor bend
• angler's knot
• angler's loop
• arbor knot
• artillery loop
• asher's equalizer
• ashley's stopper knot

• bachmann knot
• bag knot
• bait loop
• bale sling hitch
• barrel knot
• barrel sling
• becket hitch
• bimini twist
• binder's knot
• blackwall hitch
• blake's hitch
• blood knot
• blood loop dropper knot
• boa knot
• boas bowline
• boatman's knot
• boom hitch
• bottle sling
• bottom loaded release hitch
• bow knot
• bowline on bight
• bowline
• bowstring knot
• braid knot
• brummycham bowline
• buffer knot
• builder's knot
• bull hitch
• buntline hitch

• carrick bend
• carrick mat
• cat's paw
• catshank
• caver's helical knot
• chain hitch
• chain stitch lashing
• chi-fi knot
• chinese button knot
• chinese cross knot
• chinese good luck knot
• chinese lanyard knot
• clinging clara
• clove hitch
• common whipping
• constrictor knot
• continuous ring hitching
• corned beef knot
• cow hitch with toggle
• cow hitch
• cow-tie knot
• cross-prusik knot
• crossing knot

• diamond hitch
• diamond knot
• dogshank
• double bowline
• double carrick bend
• double chain
• double chain
• double figure eight bend
• double figure eight
• double friction hitch
• double grinner knot
• double harness bend with parallel ends
• double munter friction hitch
• double overhand bend
• double overhand loop
• double overhand sliding loop
• double overhand
• double pile hitch
• double prusik knot
• double ring hitching
• double scaffold knot
• double sheet bend
• double stopper
• double uni knot
• draw kot
• dropper loop
• duncan loop
• dutch marine bowline
• dutra double loop knot

• eight-strand sennit
• eight strand square plait
• englishman's knot
• englishman's loop
• eskimo bowline
• extended french prusik knot
• eye splice

• farmer's knot
• farmer's loop
• figure-of-eight coil
• figure-of-eight follow through
• figure-of-eight hitch
• figure-of-eight knot
• figure-of-eight loop
• figure-of-eight coil
• fireman's chair knot
• fireman's coil
• fisherman's bend
• fisherman's eye
• fisherman's knot
• flemish bend
• flemish knot
• four-strand braid
• four-strand plait
• four-strand sennit
• french bowline
• french prusik knot
• frost knot

• gaff topsail halyard bend
• good luck knot
• Gordian knot
• granny knot
• grief knot
• grinner knot
• gripping sailor's hitch
• ground-line hitch

• hackamore
• half blood knot
• half hitching
• half hitch
• halibut knot
• halter hitch
• halyard bend
• handcuff knot
• hangman's noose
• harness bend
• heaving line bend
• heaving line knot
• hedden knot
• hight post hitch
• highwayman's hitch
• hitching tie
• honda knot
• hunter's bend

• killick hitch
• klemheist knot
• knife lanyard knot
• knute hitch
• kreuklem knot

• lariat loop
• lark's foot
• lark's head
• lighterman's hitch
• lineman's loop
• linfit knot
• long mat

• machard tresse
• magnus hitch
• major turle's knot
• manharness knot
• mariner's knot
• marline hitching
• marlinespike hitch
• midshipman's hitch
• miller's knot
• monkey's fist
• mooring hitch
• munster hitch
• munter friction hitch
• munter mule

• ocean plait
• one way sheet bend
• orvis knot
• ossel hitch
• ossel knot
• overhand bend
• overhand knot and half hitch
• overhand knot with draw-loop
• overhand knot
• overhand loop
• oysterman's stopper knot

• packer's knot
• painter's hitch
• paldo tackle
• palomar knot
• pedigree cow hitch
• peg knot
• penberthy knot
• perfected whipping
• perfection loop
• pile hitch
• piwich knot
• plafond knot
• plank sling
• poldo tackle
• pole lashing
• portuguese bowline
• prusik knot

• racking bend
• racking seizing
• reef knot
• rigger's bend
• ring hitch
• ring knot
• ringbolt hitching
• rolling hitch
• round hitch
• round mat
• round seizing
• round turn and two half hitches
• round turn
• running knot
• running loop
• rustler's knot

• sack knot
• sail maker's whipping
• sailor's knot
• sailor's hitch
• savoy knot
• scaffold knot
• seizing bend
• shake hands

• sheep shank man o' war
• sheepshank
• sheet bend
• simple chain
• simple knot
• simple noose
• simple simon double
• simple simon over
• simple simon under
• single hitch
• single stopper
• six strand round plait
• sliding loop
• sliding ring hitch
• slip knot
• slipped overhand knot
• slipped buntline hitch
• slippery eight loop
• slippery hitch
• slippery round hitch
• snuggle hitch
• spade end knot
• span loop
• spanish bowline
• splice
• square knot
• square lashing
• square turk's head
• stevedore's knot
• strangle knot
• strop bend
• surgeon's end loop
• surgeon's knot
• surgeon's loop

• tarbuck knot
• taut-line hitch
• thief knot
• three quarter figure eight loop
• three way sheet bend
• three-strand braid
• thumb knot
• tiller's hitch
• timber hitch
• tom fool's knot
• top loaded release hitch
• transom knot
• trilene knot
• triple bowline
• triple figure eight
• triple overhand knot
• trucker's hitch
• true lover's knot
• tug boat hitch
• tumbling thief knot
• turle knot
• twined turk's head
• two half hitches
• two strand braid
• two strand overhand knot

• valdotain tresse
• versatackle knot
• vibration-proof hitch
• vice versa

• wagoner's hitch
• water bowline
• water knot
• waterman's knot
• weaver's knot
• west country whipping
• wrapped and reef knotted coil