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

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

G2I1L1D2E1N1

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6-letter words (4 found)

DINGLE,ELDING,ENGILD,GILDEN,

5-letter words (8 found)

DEIGN,DINGE,ELDIN,GELID,GLIDE,INGLE,LIGNE,LINED,

4-letter words (25 found)

DEIL,DELI,DENI,DIEL,DINE,DING,EILD,GELD,GIED,GIEN,GILD,GLED,GLEI,GLEN,GLID,IDLE,LEND,LENG,LIED,LIEN,LIND,LINE,LING,NIDE,NIED,

3-letter words (30 found)

DEG,DEI,DEL,DEN,DIE,DIG,DIN,ELD,END,ENG,GED,GEL,GEN,GID,GIE,GIN,IDE,ING,LED,LEG,LEI,LID,LIE,LIG,LIN,NED,NEG,NID,NIE,NIL,

2-letter words (10 found)

DE,DI,ED,EL,EN,GI,ID,IN,LI,NE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 78 words from gilden according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of gilden

gilden

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡɪldən/

Etymology 1

From Middle English gilden, gelden, gulden, from Old English gylden, from Proto-West Germanic *gulþīn, from Proto-Germanic *gulþīnaz (“golden”), from *gulþą (“gold”), equivalent to gold +‎ -en. Cognate with Dutch gulden, German gülden, Swedish gyllen.

Adjective

gilden (comparative more gilden, superlative most gilden)

  1. (obsolete) Golden; made of gold.

Etymology 2

From gild +‎ -en.

Verb

gilden (third-person singular simple present gildens, present participle gildening, simple past and past participle gildened)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To make or become golden or gilded

Anagrams

  • Dingle, dingle, elding, engild, ingled

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɪldən

Verb

gilden

  1. inflection of gillen:
    1. plural past indicative
    2. (dated or formal) plural past subjunctive

German

Alternative forms

  • gülden

Etymology

From a colloquial merger of various dialectal forms of gelten and the related (obsolete) gülten. Compare for example Alemannic German gülte, gilde, Rhine Franconian gille, Central Franconian jelle, jölde.

Verb

gilden (weak, third-person singular present gildet, past tense gildete, past participle gegildet, auxiliary haben)

  1. (colloquial, chiefly childish) to count; to be valid
    Synonym: gelten

Usage notes

  • Although this verb is fully conjugable, the 3rd-person singular present gildet is by far the commonest form. It is often used as if it were a form of gelten, thus instead of standard gilt.

Conjugation

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • gylden, gildene, gyldene, gulden, guldene, guylden, guyldene, guildene

Etymology

From Old English gylden.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡiːldən/, /ˈɡildən/

Adjective

gilden

  1. Formed from gold.
  2. Covered or decorated with gold.
  3. Golden in colour.
  4. (figurative) Having great wealth; rich.
  5. (figurative) Glorious, worthy of honour; blessed, happy.

Descendants

  • English: gilden; golden (by way of Middle English golden)
  • Scots: gilten (obsolete); gowden (by way of Middle English golden)

See also

  • golden

References

  • “gī̆lden, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 27 April 2018.

Source: wiktionary.org