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

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

L1E1E1D2

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4-letter words (3 found)

DELE,LEDE,LEED,

3-letter words (6 found)

DEE,DEL,EEL,ELD,LED,LEE,

2-letter words (4 found)

DE,ED,EE,EL,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 14 words from leed according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of leed

leed

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: lēd, IPA(key): /liːd/
  • Homophones: lead, lede, lied
  • Rhymes: -iːd

Etymology 1

From Middle English lede, shortened variant of leden (“language”), from Old English lēoden (“popular or national language, native tongue”), from Old English lēod (“people, nation”). Cognate with Scots leed (“language”). More at lede.

Noun

leed (plural leeds)

  1. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Language; tongue.
  2. (UK dialectal, Scotland) A national tongue (in contrast to a foreign language).
  3. (UK dialectal, Scotland) The speech of a person or class of persons; form of speech; talk; utterance; manner of speaking or writing; phraseology; diction.
Related terms
  • lede

Etymology 2

From Middle English lede, led, leod, variant of Middle English leth, leoth (“song, poem”), from Old English lēoþ (“song, poem, ode, lay, verse”), from Proto-Germanic *leuþą (“song, lay, praise”), from Proto-Indo-European *lēw- (“to sound, resound, sing out”). Cognate with Dutch lied (“song”) and German Lied (“song”), whence the English doublet lied.

Noun

leed (plural leeds)

  1. (UK dialectal, Scotland) A strain in a rhyme, song, or poem; refrain; flow.
  2. (UK dialectal, Scotland) A constant or repeated line or verse; theme.
  3. (UK dialectal, Scotland) Patter; rigmarole.
Related terms
  • lied

Etymology 3

See lede.

Noun

leed (plural lede)

  1. (obsolete) Alternative spelling of lede (“a man; a person”).

Etymology 4

See lead.

Verb

leed

  1. Obsolete spelling of lead (“to guide”).

Anagrams

  • Deel, LEDE, deel, dele, lede

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /leːt/
  • Rhymes: -eːt

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch lêet, from Old Dutch *lēth, from Proto-Germanic *laiþą, related to *laiþaz (“loath”). Unrelated to lijden (“to suffer”).

Noun

leed n (uncountable)

  1. grief, sorrow, anguish
  2. harm
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: leed

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch lêet, from Old Dutch lēth, from Proto-West Germanic *laiþ, from Proto-Germanic *laiþaz.

Adjective

leed (comparative leder, superlative leedst)

  1. (Belgium) angry
  2. sad
Declension
Derived terms

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

leed

  1. singular past indicative of lijden

Anagrams

  • deel, dele, edel, lede

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Middle High German leit, from Old High German leid. Cognate with German leid, Dutch leed.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /leːt/
  • Rhymes: -eːt
  • Homophone: Leed

Adverb

leed

  1. (in expressions) grievous; cumbersome
    Ech sinn et leed. — “I’m fed up with it.”
    Dat deet mer leed. — “I’m sorry.”
    Hatt deet mer leed. — “I pity her.”

Related terms

  • Leed

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

leed

  1. alternative form of lede (“people”)

Etymology 2

Noun

leed

  1. alternative form of led (“lead”)
    • 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

North Frisian

Alternative forms

  • lääs (Mooring)
  • leet (Sylt)

Etymology

From Old Frisian let, from Proto-West Germanic *lat.

Adjective

leed (comparative leeder, superlative letst)

  1. (Föhr-Amrum) late

Inflection

Scots

Alternative forms

  • leid

Etymology

From Middle English lede, reduced form of leden, leoden (“language”), from Old English lēoden (“national language”, literally “of the people”), from lēode (“people”). More at lede.

Noun

leed (plural leeds)

  1. language

Usage notes

  • Commonly understood language, either literally or metaphorically:
    A daena speak the leed. ― I don't speak the language.

References

  • “lede, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 20 May 2024, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
  • “leed, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 20 May 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /leˈed/ [leˈeð̞]
  • Rhymes: -ed
  • Syllabification: le‧ed

Verb

leed

  1. second-person plural imperative of leer

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English læd, from Old English lēad, from Proto-West Germanic *laud.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lɛːd/

Noun

leed

  1. lead

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 52

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