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Is gallant a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word gallant is a Scrabble US word. The word gallant is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Is gallant a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word gallant is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

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7-letter words (1 found)

GALLANT,

6-letter words (2 found)

GALANT,LALANG,

5-letter words (7 found)

ALANG,ALANT,ALGAL,LAGAN,NALLA,NATAL,TANGA,

4-letter words (19 found)

ALAN,ALGA,ANAL,ANGA,ANTA,GALA,GALL,GANT,GNAT,LANA,LANG,LANT,NAGA,NALA,TAAL,TALA,TALL,TANA,TANG,

3-letter words (16 found)

AAL,AGA,ALA,ALL,ALT,ANA,ANT,GAL,GAN,GAT,LAG,LAT,NAG,NAT,TAG,TAN,

2-letter words (8 found)

AA,AG,AL,AN,AT,LA,NA,TA,

You can make 53 words from gallant according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of gallant

gallant

Alternative forms

  • gallaunt (obsolete)

Etymology 1

From Middle English galant, galaunt, from Old French galant (“courteous; dashing; brave”), present participle of galer (“to rejoice; make merry”), from gale (“pomp; show; festivity; mirth”); either from Frankish *wala (“good, well”), a variant form of *wela, from Proto-Germanic *wela (whence well), from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- (“to choose, wish”); or alternatively from Frankish *gail (“merry; mirthful; proud; luxuriant”), from Proto-Germanic *gailaz (“merry; excited; luxurious”), related to Dutch geil (“horny; lascivious; salacious; lecherous”), German geil (“randy; horny; lecherous; wicked”), Old English gāl (“wanton; wicked; bad”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡælənt/
  • Rhymes: -ælənt

Adjective

gallant (comparative more gallant, superlative most gallant)

  1. Brave, valiant, courteous, especially with regard to male attitudes towards women.
  2. honorable.
  3. grand, noble.
  4. (obsolete) Showy; splendid; magnificent; gay; well-dressed.
Derived terms
  • gallant soldier
  • gallantly
  • gallantry
Translations

Etymology 2

17th-century borrowing from French galant. See above.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɡəˈlænt/, /ˈɡælənt/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ɡəˈlɑnt/, /ˈɡælənt/
  • Rhymes: -ænt

Adjective

gallant (comparative more gallant, superlative most gallant)

  1. Polite and attentive to ladies; courteous to women; chivalrous.
Translations

Noun

gallant (plural gallants)

  1. (dated) A fashionable young man who is polite and attentive to women.
  2. One who woos, a lover, a suitor, a seducer.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:libertine
  3. (nautical) A topgallant.
Translations

Verb

gallant (third-person singular simple present gallants, present participle gallanting, simple past and past participle gallanted)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To attend or wait on (a lady).
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To handle with grace or in a modish manner.
  3. (transitive) To conduct, escort, convey.
  4. To behave in a gallant fashion; to act the gallant.

References

  • “gallant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Welsh

Alternative forms

  • gallan (colloquial)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡaɬant/

Verb

gallant

  1. (literary) third-person plural present/future of gallu

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