How many points in Scrabble is gillie worth? gillie how many points in Words With Friends? What does gillie mean? Get all these answers on this page.
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Is gillie a Scrabble word?
Yes. The word gillie is a Scrabble US word. The word gillie is worth 7 points in Scrabble:
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Is gillie a Scrabble UK word?
Yes. The word gillie is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:
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Is gillie a Words With Friends word?
Yes. The word gillie is a Words With Friends word. The word gillie is worth 10 points in Words With Friends (WWF):
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You can make 15 words from gillie according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
From Scottish Gaelic gille (“helper”), from Middle Irish gilla (“youth, young man; boy, male child; messenger, page, servant”), possibly borrowed from Old Norse gildr (“brawny, stout; of full worth”). Compare Irish giolla (“boy”).
gillie (plural gillies)
gillie (third-person singular simple present gillies, present participle gillying, simple past and past participle gillied)
From gill (“drink measure for spirits”) + -ie; probably a nonce word coined by Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759–1796) to maintain the rhyme in a poem entitled On a Scotch Bard Gone to the West Indies, first published in 1786: see the quotation.
gillie (plural gillies)