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Is behold a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word behold is a Scrabble US word. The word behold is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

B3E1H4O1L1D2

Is behold a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word behold is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

B3E1H4O1L1D2

Is behold a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word behold is a Words With Friends word. The word behold is worth 13 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

B4E1H3O1L2D2

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6-letter words (1 found)

BEHOLD,

5-letter words (4 found)

BODLE,DHOLE,HOLED,LOBED,

4-letter words (18 found)

BHEL,BLED,BODE,BOLD,BOLE,DELO,DHOL,DOBE,DOLE,HELD,HELO,HOED,HOLD,HOLE,LOBE,LODE,OHED,OLDE,

3-letter words (22 found)

BED,BEL,BOD,BOH,DEB,DEL,DOB,DOE,DOH,DOL,EDH,ELD,HOB,HOD,HOE,LED,LOB,LOD,OBE,ODE,OLD,OLE,

2-letter words (14 found)

BE,BO,DE,DO,ED,EH,EL,HE,HO,LO,OB,OD,OE,OH,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 60 words from behold according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of behold

behold

Etymology

From Middle English beholden, from Old English behealdan (“to hold, have, occupy, possess, guard, preserve, contain, belong, keep, observe, consider, behold, look at, gaze on, see, signify, avail, effect, take care, beware, be cautious, restrain, act, behave”), from Proto-West Germanic *bihaldan (“to hold with, keep”), equivalent to be- +‎ hold. Cognate with Saterland Frisian behoolde (“to keep”), Dutch behouden (“to keep, restrain, preserve”), German behalten (“to keep, restrain, remember”), Danish and Norwegian beholde (“to keep”) and Swedish behålla (“to keep”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /bɪˈhəʊld/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /bɪˈhoʊld/
  • Rhymes: -əʊld, -oʊld

Verb

behold (third-person singular simple present beholds, present participle beholding, simple past beheld, past participle beheld or (rare) beholden)

  1. (transitive)
    1. To look at or see (someone or something), especially appreciatively; to descry, to look upon.
      Synonyms: see Thesaurus:look
    2. To contemplate (someone or something).
  2. (intransitive) To look.

Usage notes

Rarely used in informal speech. The past participle beholden now has a meaning detached from the other forms of the word.

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Interjection

behold

  1. look, a call of attention to something
  2. lo!

Synonyms

  • See Thesaurus:lo

Translations

References

  • “behold”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “behold”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [b̥eˈhʌlˀ]

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German beholt, behalt, from the verb beholden; see also Danish beholde.

Noun

behold c (uninflected)

  1. (archaic) haven, refuge
    in the phrases i behold (“intact”) and i god behold (“safe”)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

behold

  1. imperative of beholde

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

behold

  1. imperative of beholde

Source: wiktionary.org