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Is girdle a Scrabble word?

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

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Is girdle a Scrabble UK word?

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

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6-letter words (6 found)

GILDER,GIRDLE,GLIDER,LIDGER,REGILD,RIDGEL,

5-letter words (9 found)

DERIG,DIRGE,GELID,GLIDE,GRIDE,IDLER,LIGER,RIDGE,RILED,

4-letter words (25 found)

DEIL,DELI,DIEL,DIRE,DIRL,DREG,EILD,GELD,GIED,GILD,GIRD,GIRL,GLED,GLEI,GLID,GRID,IDLE,IRED,LEIR,LIED,LIER,LIRE,RIDE,RIEL,RILE,

3-letter words (25 found)

DEG,DEI,DEL,DIE,DIG,ELD,ERG,GED,GEL,GER,GID,GIE,IDE,IRE,LED,LEG,LEI,LID,LIE,LIG,RED,REG,REI,RID,RIG,

2-letter words (9 found)

DE,DI,ED,EL,ER,GI,ID,LI,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 75 words from girdle according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of girdle

girdle

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɡɝdl̩/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɡɜːdl̩/
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dəl

Etymology 1

From Middle English girdel, gerdel, gurdel, from Old English gyrdel, from Proto-West Germanic *gurdil, from Proto-Germanic *gurdilaz (“girdle, belt”), equivalent to gird +‎ -le.

Noun

girdle (plural girdles)

  1. That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference
  2. A belt or sash at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery.
  3. A garment used to hold the abdomen, hips, buttocks, and/or thighs in a particular shape.
  4. The zodiac; also, the equator.
  5. The line of greatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting.
  6. (mining) A thin bed or stratum of stone.
  7. The clitellum of an earthworm.
  8. The removal or inversion of a ring of bark in order to kill or stunt a tree.
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Verb

girdle (third-person singular simple present girdles, present participle girdling, simple past and past participle girdled)

  1. (transitive) To gird, encircle, or constrain by such means.
  2. (transitive) To kill or stunt a tree by removing or inverting a ring of bark.
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Etymology 2

Noun

girdle (plural girdles)

  1. (Scotland, Northern English) Alternative form of griddle

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Anagrams

  • Dilger, Gilder, gilder, girled, glider, gridle, regild, ridgel

Source: wiktionary.org