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Is auld a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word auld is a Scrabble US word. The word auld is worth 5 points in Scrabble:

A1U1L1D2

Is auld a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word auld is a Scrabble UK word and has 5 points:

A1U1L1D2

Is auld a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word auld is a Words With Friends word. The word auld is worth 7 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

A1U2L2D2

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4-letter words (4 found)

AULD,DUAL,LAUD,UDAL,

3-letter words (4 found)

ALU,DAL,LAD,LUD,

2-letter words (4 found)

AD,AL,DA,LA,

You can make 12 words from auld according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of auld

auld uald alud laud ulad luad audl uadl adul daul udal dual aldu ladu adlu dalu ldau dlau ulda luda udla dula ldua dlua

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word auld. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in auld.

Definitions and meaning of auld

auld

Alternative forms

  • aud, aul, oul, oul', ould

Etymology

From Scots auld or from Northern Middle English auld, aulde, awld, awlde, ald, alde, from Northumbrian Old English ald, variant of Old English eald (“old, mature, venerable; antique, ancient, primeval”), from Proto-West Germanic *ald, from Proto-Germanic *aldaz (“grown up; old”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eltós (“grown, nourished, matured”). Compare cognate Latin altus (“nourished, raised, grown; tall”). Doublet of old.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: ôld, IPA(key): /ɔ(ː)ld/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ɔld/
  • (UK) IPA(key): /əʊld/, IPA(key): /ɔːld/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ɑːld/
  • (Liverpool) IPA(key): /aːʊl/
  • Rhymes: -əʊld, -ɔːld

Adjective

auld (comparative aulder, superlative auldest)

  1. (archaic, Northern England, Liverpool, Scotland, Ireland) old

Synonyms

  • aged, eldern, hoary; see also Thesaurus:old

Related terms

Further reading

  • “auld”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • “auld”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “auld”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “auld”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
  • James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “Auld”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volumes I (A–B), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 564, column 2.
  • William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “auld”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volume I, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 381, column 1.

Anagrams

  • Daul, Dula, dual, laud, udal

Scots

Alternative forms

  • ald, aald, aal, aul', aul, ould

Etymology

From Northern Middle English auld, aulde, awld, awlde, ald, alde, from Northumbrian Old English ald, variant of Old English eald (“old, mature, venerable; antique, ancient, primeval”), from Proto-West Germanic *ald, from Proto-Germanic *aldaz (“grown up; old”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eltós (“grown, nourished, matured”). Compare cognate Latin altus (“nourished, raised, grown; tall”).

Pronunciation

  • (Central Scots, Southern Scots) IPA(key): /ɔl(d)/
  • (Doric Scots, Southern Scots, cat–caught merger) IPA(key): /al(d)/

Adjective

auld (comparative aulder, superlative auldest)

  1. old

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “auld”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  • “auld” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

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