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5-letter words (1 found)

PLAID,

4-letter words (10 found)

DALI,DIAL,LAID,LIPA,PADI,PAID,PAIL,PALI,PIAL,PILA,

3-letter words (13 found)

AID,AIL,ALP,DAL,DAP,DIP,LAD,LAP,LID,LIP,PAD,PAL,PIA,

2-letter words (10 found)

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

You can make 34 words from plaid according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of plaid

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Definitions and meaning of plaid

plaid

Etymology 1

From Scots plaid, of uncertain origin; perhaps from a past participle form of ply. Scottish Gaelic plaide (“blanket”) is probably a borrowing from Scots.

Also compare Scottish Gaelic peall (“covering, veil, blanket”) << Latin pellis (“hide, covering”), but the OED finds the sound changes problematic.

Pronunciation

  • (Scotland) IPA(key): /pled/, /plad/
  • (UK, Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /plæd/
  • Rhymes: -æd

Noun

plaid (countable and uncountable, plural plaids)

  1. (textiles) A type of twilled woollen cloth, often with a tartan or chequered pattern. [from 16thc.]
  2. A length of such material used as a piece of clothing, formerly worn in the Scottish Highlands and other parts of northern Britain and remaining as an item of ceremonial dress worn by members of Scottish pipe bands. [from 16thc.]
  3. The typical chequered pattern of a plaid; tartan. [from 19thc.]
Derived terms
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Adjective

plaid (comparative more plaid, superlative most plaid)

  1. Having a pattern or colors which resemble a Scottish tartan; checkered or marked with bars or stripes at right angles to one another.

Etymology 2

Alternative forms.

Verb

plaid

  1. (archaic) simple past and past participle of play
    • 1774, Dr Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Works of the English Poets, J. Nichols, Volume II, Page 134,
      "...then plaid on the organ, and sung..."

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French

Etymology 1

From Old French plait, from Latin placitum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /plɛ/
  • Homophones: plaids, plaie, plaies, plais, plaît

Noun

plaid m (plural plaids)

  1. (history) placitum (kind of medieval council)

Etymology 2

From English plaid.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /plɛd/
  • Homophones: plaids, plaide, plaident, plaides

Noun

plaid m (plural plaids)

  1. plaid

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English plaid.

Noun

plaid m (invariable)

  1. tartan rug (especially one used when travelling/traveling)

Middle English

Etymology

From Old French plait, plaid.

Noun

plaid

  1. Alternative form of ple

Old French

Noun

plaid oblique singular, m (oblique plural plaiz or plaitz, nominative singular plaiz or plaitz, nominative plural plaid)

  1. Alternative form of plait

Romansch

Alternative forms

  • pled (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader)

Noun

plaid m (plural plaids)

  1. (Sursilvan) word

Related terms

  • pledari

Scots

Etymology

Uncertain; perhaps from a past participle form of ply.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pled/

Noun

plaid (plural plaids)

  1. plaid

Welsh

Etymology

The original meaning was "row," "rank," later "partition," possibly related to Irish pluid/Scottish Gaelic plaide (“blanket”); as Proto-Celtic had no p, the term was likely a borrowing, such as English/Scots plaid.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /plai̯d/
  • Rhymes: -ai̯d

Noun

plaid f (plural pleidiau)

  1. (politics) a (political) party

Derived terms

  • o blaid (“in favour (of)”)
  • pleidiol (“partial, partisan”)
  • pleidiwr (“party member”)

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Source: wiktionary.org