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Is gaud a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word gaud is a Scrabble US word. The word gaud is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

G2A1U1D2

Is gaud a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word gaud is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

G2A1U1D2

Is gaud a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word gaud is a Words With Friends word. The word gaud is worth 8 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

G3A1U2D2

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4-letter words (1 found)

GAUD,

3-letter words (4 found)

DAG,DUG,GAD,GAU,

2-letter words (5 found)

AD,AG,DA,GU,UG,

You can make 10 words from gaud according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of gaud

gaud agud guad ugad augd uagd gadu agdu gdau dgau adgu dagu guda ugda gdua dgua udga duga audg uadg adug daug udag duag

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

Definitions and meaning of gaud

gaud

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡɔːd/
  • Rhymes: -ɔːd
  • Homophones: god (in accents with the cot-caught merger), gored (in non-rhotic accents with the horse-hoarse merger), gourd (in non-rhotic accents with the pour-poor merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English gaude, gawde (“jest, prank, trick; ornamental bead in a rosary, trinket, bauble”). Compare Middle English gaudy, gaudee, of the same meaning.

Noun

gaud (plural gauds)

  1. A cheap showy trinket
    • 1922, T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom (published 1926)
      Dalmeny lent me red tabs, Evans his brass hat; so that I had the gauds of my appointment in the ceremony of the Jaffa gate, which for me was the supreme moment of the war.
  2. (obsolete) trick; jest; sport
  3. (obsolete) deceit; fraud; artifice
Related terms
  • gaudy
Translations

Verb

gaud (third-person singular simple present gauds, present participle gauding, simple past and past participle gauded)

  1. (obsolete) To bedeck gaudily; to decorate with gauds or showy trinkets or colours; to paint.

Etymology 2

Compare French gaudir (“to rejoice”).

Verb

gaud (third-person singular simple present gauds, present participle gauding, simple past and past participle gauded)

  1. To sport or keep festival.

Anagrams

  • Dagu, Guad.

Ilocano

Noun

gaud

  1. paddle; oar

Lubuagan Kalinga

Noun

gaud

  1. paddle; oar

Source: wiktionary.org