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Is maiden a Scrabble word?

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

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Is maiden a Scrabble UK word?

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

M3A1I1D2E1N1

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Yes. The word maiden is a Words With Friends word. The word maiden is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (7 found)

AIDMEN,DAIMEN,DEMAIN,MAIDEN,MAINED,MEDIAN,MEDINA,

5-letter words (18 found)

ADMEN,ADMIN,AIMED,AMEND,AMIDE,AMINE,ANIME,DAINE,DEMAN,DENIM,DIANE,MANDI,MANED,MEDIA,MENAD,MINAE,MINED,NAMED,

4-letter words (33 found)

AIDE,AINE,AMEN,AMID,AMIE,AMIN,DAME,DAMN,DEAN,DENI,DIME,DINE,EINA,IDEA,IDEM,MADE,MAID,MAIN,MAND,MANE,MANI,MEAD,MEAN,MEIN,MEND,MIEN,MINA,MIND,MINE,NAME,NEMA,NIDE,NIED,

3-letter words (32 found)

AID,AIM,AIN,AME,AMI,AND,ANE,ANI,DAE,DAM,DAN,DEI,DEN,DIE,DIM,DIN,EAN,END,IDE,MAD,MAE,MAN,MED,MEN,MID,MNA,NAE,NAM,NED,NID,NIE,NIM,

2-letter words (19 found)

AD,AE,AI,AM,AN,DA,DE,DI,EA,ED,EM,EN,ID,IN,MA,ME,MI,NA,NE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 110 words from maiden according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of maiden

maiden

Etymology

From Middle English mayden, meiden, from Old English mæġden (“girl”), originally a diminutive of mæġeþ (“girl”) via diminutive suffix -en, from Proto-West Germanic *magaþ, from Proto-Germanic *magaþs. Equivalent to maid +‎ -en.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmeɪdən/
  • Rhymes: -eɪdən

Noun

maiden (plural maidens)

  1. (now chiefly literary) A girl or an unmarried young woman.
  2. (archaic) A female virgin.
  3. (obsolete, dialectal) A man with no experience of sex, especially because of deliberate abstention.
  4. A maidservant.
  5. A clothes maiden.
  6. (now rare) An unmarried woman, especially an older woman.
  7. (horse racing) A racehorse without any victory, i.e. one having a "virgin record".
  8. (horse racing) A horse race in which all starters are maidens.
  9. (historical) A Scottish counterpart of the guillotine.
  10. (cricket) A maiden over.
  11. (obsolete) A machine for washing linen.
  12. (Wicca) Alternative form of Maiden

Synonyms

  • (unmarried (young) female): bachelorette

Derived terms

Related terms

  • maid

Translations

Adjective

maiden (not comparable)

  1. Virgin.
  2. (of a female, human or animal) Without offspring.
  3. Like or befitting a (young, unmarried) maiden.
  4. (figuratively) Being a first occurrence or event.
  5. (cricket) Being an over in which no runs are scored.
  6. Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.
  7. (of a fortress) Never having been captured or violated.
  8. (of a tree) Grown from seed and never pruned.

Synonyms

  • maidenly

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

  • Damien, Eidman, Manide, Median, Medina, Midean, aidmen, demain, maenid, mained, median, medina, meidan

Finnish

Alternative forms

  • maitten

Noun

maiden

  1. genitive plural of maa

Anagrams

  • median

Scots

Alternative forms

  • (obsolete, Older Scots) maidin, madin

Etymology

From Middle English mayden, Old English mægden; compare Scottish Gaelic maighdeann. Attested in Older Scots from the 12th century.

Noun

maiden (plural maidens)

  1. (archaic) maiden, a girl, an unmarried young woman
  2. (archaic, attributive or in compounds) (something) early, immature, first
    maiden egg ― the first egg laid by a young hen
    maiden-chance ― first opportunity
  3. (archaic) a servant girl, a maid
  4. (archaic) the last sheaf of grain harvested, decorated with ribbons and regarded as a talisman; (by extension) the end of the harvest
    Synonyms: kirn, clyack, hare
  5. (historical) [from 16th century] an instrument similar to a guillotine used for capital punishment
  6. (obsolete) [18th to 20th century] the eldest daughter of a landowner or wealthy farmer

Verb

maiden (third-person singular simple present maidens, present participle maidenin, simple past maident, past participle maident)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) to act as maiden cummer (mother's assistant) at a christening
    maiden the bairn ― look after the child

References

  • “maiden, n., v.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

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