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Is guerdon a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word guerdon is a Scrabble US word. The word guerdon is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Is guerdon a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word guerdon is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

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Yes. The word guerdon is a Words With Friends word. The word guerdon is worth 12 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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7-letter words (3 found)

GUERDON,UNDERGO,UNGORED,

6-letter words (14 found)

DROGUE,DUNGER,ENDURO,GERUND,GOURDE,GRONED,GROUND,GURNED,NUDGER,ROGUED,ROUGED,RUNGED,UNDOER,UNGORD,

5-letter words (28 found)

DONER,DRONE,ERGON,ERUGO,GENRO,GONER,GORED,GOURD,GRONE,GRUED,GRUND,NEGRO,NUDER,NUDGE,ORGUE,REDON,ROGUE,RONDE,ROUEN,ROUGE,ROUND,RUNED,UNDER,UNGOD,UNRED,UREDO,URGED,URNED,

4-letter words (54 found)

DEGU,DERN,DERO,DOEN,DOER,DOGE,DONE,DONG,DORE,DOUN,DOUR,DREG,DRUG,DUNE,DUNG,DURE,DURN,DURO,ERGO,EURO,GENU,GOER,GONE,GORE,GREN,GRUE,GUDE,GURN,NERD,NODE,NUDE,NURD,OGRE,ONER,OURN,REDO,REGO,REND,RENO,RODE,ROED,RONE,RONG,ROUE,RUDE,RUED,RUND,RUNE,RUNG,UDON,UNDE,UNDO,URDE,URGE,

3-letter words (56 found)

DEG,DEN,DOE,DOG,DON,DOR,DUE,DUG,DUN,DUO,EGO,END,ENG,EON,ERG,ERN,GED,GEN,GEO,GER,GNU,GOD,GOE,GON,GOR,GUE,GUN,GUR,NED,NEG,NOD,NOG,NOR,NUG,NUR,ODE,ONE,ORD,ORE,ORG,OUD,OUR,RED,REG,REN,REO,ROD,ROE,RUD,RUE,RUG,RUN,UDO,URD,URE,URN,

2-letter words (19 found)

DE,DO,ED,EN,ER,GO,GU,NE,NO,NU,OD,OE,ON,OR,OU,RE,UG,UN,UR,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 175 words from guerdon according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of guerdon

guerdon

Alternative forms

  • gerdon (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English guerdon, guerdoun, gardone, from Old French guerdon, guerredon, guarredon, werdon, from Medieval Latin widerdōnum, alteration of widerlōnum, from West Germanic (whence Old High German widarlōn, Old English wiþerlēan), literally ‘back-payment’, with the second element assimilated to Latin dōnum (“gift”).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: gûrʹdn
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɡəː.dən/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɡɝ.dən/
  • Hyphenation: guer‧don

Noun

guerdon (plural guerdons)

  1. (now literary) A reward, prize or recompense for a service; an accolade.

Translations

Verb

guerdon (third-person singular simple present guerdons, present participle guerdoning, simple past and past participle guerdoned)

  1. (transitive) To give such a reward to.

Derived terms

References

Further reading

  • “guerdon”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • “guerdon, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  • “guerdon”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “guerdon”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “guerdon”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volume II, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC, page 2648, columns 1–2.

Anagrams

  • go under, grounde, undergo, ungored

French

Noun

guerdon m (plural guerdons)

  1. (archaic) reward

Further reading

  • “guerdon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Old French

Noun

guerdon oblique singular, m (oblique plural guerdons, nominative singular guerdons, nominative plural guerdon)

  1. Alternative form of guerredon

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