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Yes. The word guise is a Scrabble US word. The word guise is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word guise is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

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5-letter words (1 found)

GUISE,

4-letter words (3 found)

EGIS,GIES,GUES,

3-letter words (12 found)

GIE,GIS,GUE,GUS,SEG,SEI,SIG,SUE,SUG,SUI,UGS,USE,

2-letter words (7 found)

ES,GI,GU,IS,SI,UG,US,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 24 words from guise according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of guise

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Definitions and meaning of guise

guise

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡaɪz/
  • Homophone: guys
  • Rhymes: -aɪz

Etymology 1

From Middle English guise, gise, gyse, from Old French guisse, guise, vise (“guise, manner, way”), from Old Frankish *wīsa (“manner, way, fashion”), from Proto-Germanic *wīsǭ (“manner, way”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, view, behold, perceive”). Cognate with Old High German wīsa (“way, manner”), Old English wīse (“way, manner”), Dutch wijze (“way, manner”). More at wise.

Noun

guise (plural guises)

  1. Customary way of speaking or acting; fashion, manner, practice (often used formerly in such phrases as "at his own guise"; that is, in his own fashion, to suit himself.)
    • 1924, Aristotle. Metaphysics. Translated by W. D. Ross. Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001. Aristotle. Metaphysics. Book 1, Part 5.
      dialecticians and sophists assume the same guise as the philosopher
  2. External appearance in manner or dress; appropriate indication or expression; garb; shape.
  3. Misleading appearance; cover, cloak.
    Under the guise of patriotism
Synonyms
  • (customary way of acting): See Thesaurus:conduct
  • (external appearance): See Thesaurus:guise
Related terms
  • disguise
Translations

Verb

guise (third-person singular simple present guises, present participle guising, simple past and past participle guised)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To dress.
  2. (archaic, intransitive) To act as a guiser; to go dressed up in a parade etc.

Etymology 2

Noun

guise pl (plural only)

  1. (Internet slang) Deliberate misspelling of guys.
    Sup guise? — What's up, guys?

Anagrams

  • Segui, egusi

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French guise, from Old French guisse, guise, vise (“guise, manner, way”), from Old Frankish *wīsa (“manner, way, fashion”), from Proto-Germanic *wīsǭ (“manner, way”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to see, view, behold, perceive”). Cognate with Old High German wīsa (“way, manner”), Old English wīse (“wise, way, fashion, custom, habit, manner”). More at wise.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡiz/

Noun

guise f (plural guises)

  1. way
    le faire à ma guise ― do it my way
    Je l’ai laissé chanter à sa guise. ― I let him sing his way.
    en guise de ― by way of, as

Derived terms

  • en guise de

Further reading

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

Galician

Verb

guise

  1. inflection of guisar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Italian

Noun

guise f

  1. plural of guisa

Anagrams

  • segui, seguì

Old French

Noun

guise oblique singular, f (oblique plural guises, nominative singular guise, nominative plural guises)

  1. way; manner

Descendants

  • English: guise
  • French: guise

References

  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (guise, supplement)

Portuguese

Verb

guise

  1. inflection of guisar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

guise

  1. inflection of guisar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Source: wiktionary.org