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Is gelt a Scrabble word?

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

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Is gelt a Scrabble UK word?

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

G2E1L1T1

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4-letter words (1 found)

GELT,

3-letter words (7 found)

ELT,GEL,GET,LEG,LET,TEG,TEL,

2-letter words (3 found)

EL,ET,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

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

All 4 letters words made out of gelt

gelt eglt glet lget elgt legt getl egtl gtel tgel etgl tegl glte lgte gtle tgle ltge tlge eltg letg etlg telg lteg tleg

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

Definitions and meaning of gelt

gelt

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ɡɛlt/
  • Rhymes: -ɛlt

Etymology 1

From Irish geilt.

Noun

gelt (plural gelts)

  1. (rare) A lunatic.

Etymology 2

Variation of gilt.

Noun

gelt (plural gelts)

  1. (obsolete) Gilding; gilt.

Etymology 3

See geld.

Verb

gelt

  1. simple past and past participle of geld

Noun

gelt (plural gelts)

  1. A gelding.

Etymology 4

In the basic sense of "money", attested since the early 16th century, initially from (an Early New High German continuation of) Middle High German gelt (modern German Geld), from Old High German gelt (“payment, money”), or in some cases from (an Early Modern Dutch continuation of) Middle Dutch gelt. Later, and in the Jewish-related senses, from Yiddish געלט (gelt). The German, Dutch and Yiddish words are all from Proto-Germanic *geldą (“reward, gift, money”). Doublet of native words geld and yield.

Noun

gelt (usually uncountable, plural gelts)

  1. (originally UK, especially thieves' cant and Polari, later Judaism and general slang) Money.
    • 1591 (1685), Henry Wotton, in Reliquiae Wottonianae, 616:
      It amounts to not above 12000 Fr. Rhenish, yearly, in bare gelt.
    • 1816, Egbert Benson, in a memoir read before the New York Historical Society [in 1816], quoted in History of the School of the Collegiate Reformed Dutch Church (1883), page 22:
      I saw him at the house of my parents; I in my earliest youth, he approaching to fourscore. He was on his way to collect the Dominie's gelt; for the Dutch always took care the stipend to the minister should be competent, that so he never might be straitened 'to desire a gift.'
    • 1948, William Burroughs, letter, 5 Jun 1948:
      Have bought some farm land in Rio Grande Valley which should bring in a sizeable bundle of gelts come cotton picking time.
  2. Tribute; tax.
  3. (Judaism) Money, especially that given as a gift on Hanukkah or used in games of dreidel.
  4. (Judaism) Chocolate candy in the shape of coins, usually wrapped in metallic foil, usually eaten on Hanukkah and often used for games of dreidel.
Derived terms
  • (thieves' cant): rum-gelt (“new money”), smear-gelt (“bribe”)

References

Icelandic

Etymology

Back-formation from gelta (“to bark”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /cɛl̥t/
  • Rhymes: -ɛl̥t

Noun

gelt n (genitive singular gelts, no plural)

  1. barking
    Synonyms: gjamm, gá

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