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Is laid a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word laid is a Scrabble US word. The word laid is worth 5 points in Scrabble:

L1A1I1D2

Is laid a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word laid is a Scrabble UK word and has 5 points:

L1A1I1D2

Is laid a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word laid is a Words With Friends word. The word laid is worth 6 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

L2A1I1D2

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4-letter words (3 found)

DALI,DIAL,LAID,

3-letter words (5 found)

AID,AIL,DAL,LAD,LID,

2-letter words (8 found)

AD,AI,AL,DA,DI,ID,LA,LI,

You can make 16 words from laid according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of laid

laid alid liad ilad aild iald ladi aldi ldai dlai adli dali lida ilda ldia dlia idla dila aidl iadl adil dail idal dial

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word laid. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in laid.

Definitions and meaning of laid

laid

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /leɪd/
  • Rhymes: -eɪd

Verb

laid

  1. simple past and past participle of lay

Derived terms

  • get laid
  • laid rope

Adjective

laid (not comparable)

  1. (of paper) Marked with parallel lines, as if ribbed, from wires in the mould.

Derived terms

  • creamlaid
  • deep-laid
  • well-laid

Translations

Anagrams

  • Dail, Dali, Dalí, Dial, dali, dial, dial.

Estonian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *laita, from Proto-Germanic *laidō. Compare Old Norse leið. Cognate to Finnish laita.

Noun

laid (genitive laia, partitive laida)

  1. width (of cloth)
  2. plank on the side of a boat.
  3. side of a boat.
  4. board, starboard
Declension

Etymology 2

From Proto-Finnic *laito, possibly from Proto-Baltic *slaid-. Compare Lithuanian šlaitas (“hillside”). Cognate to Finnish laito. Alternatively from Proto-Germanic *laidō.

Noun

laid (genitive laiu, partitive laidu)

  1. islet, holm
Declension

French

Etymology

From Middle French laid (“hideous, ugly”), from Old French laid, leid (“unpleasant, horrible, odious”), from Vulgar Latin *laitus (“unpleasant, ugly”), from Frankish *laiþ (“unpleasant, obstinate, odious”), from Proto-Germanic *laiþaz (“sorrowful, unpleasant”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyt- (“unpleasant”). Akin to Old High German leid (“unpleasant, odious”) (German leid (“unfortunate”), Leid (“grief”)), Old Norse leiþr (“odious”), Old English lāþ (“unpleasant, odious”), Catalan lleig (“ugly”), Occitan lag (“ugly”). More at loath.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lɛ/
  • Homophones: lai, laids, lais, lait, laits (general), legs (dated)

Adjective

laid (feminine laide, masculine plural laids, feminine plural laides)

  1. physically ugly
    Synonyms: moche, vilain
  2. morally corrupt

Derived terms

  • jolie laide
  • laid comme les sept péchés capitaux
  • laid comme un pou

Further reading

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

Middle French

Etymology

Old French lait (feminine laide).

Adjective

laid m (feminine singular laide, masculine plural laids, feminine plural laides)

  1. ugly

Descendants

  • French: laid

Norman

Etymology

From Old French laid, leid (“unpleasant, horrible, odious”), from Proto-Germanic *laiþaz (“sorrowful, unpleasant”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyt- (“unpleasant”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

laid m

  1. (Jersey) ugly
    Bouonne femme n'est janmais laie. ― A nice woman is never ugly.
    Janmais vaque n'a trouvé san vieau laid. ― A cow never found her calf ugly.

Derived terms

  • laid coumme lé péché du Dînmanche (“ugly as sin”, literally “ugly as a Sunday sin”)
  • laidi (“become ugly, turn ugly”)
  • s'laidi (“get ugly, turn ugly”)
  • laiduthe, laideune (“ugly character, good-for-nothing”)

Welsh

Noun

laid

  1. Soft mutation of llaid.

Mutation


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