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Is scold a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word scold is a Scrabble US word. The word scold is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Is scold a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word scold is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

S1C3O1L1D2

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5-letter words (3 found)

CLODS,COLDS,SCOLD,

4-letter words (9 found)

CLOD,CODS,COLD,COLS,DOCS,DOLS,LODS,OLDS,SOLD,

3-letter words (14 found)

COD,COL,COS,DOC,DOL,DOS,DSO,LOD,LOS,ODS,OLD,SOC,SOD,SOL,

2-letter words (5 found)

DO,LO,OD,OS,SO,

You can make 31 words from scold according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of scold

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Definitions and meaning of scold

scold

Etymology

The noun is from Middle English scold(e), skald(e), first attested in the 12th or 13th century (as scold, scolde, skolde, skald). The verb is from Middle English scolden, first attested in the late 1300s. Most dictionaries derive the verb from the noun and say the noun is probably from Old Norse skald (“poet”) (cognate with Icelandic skáld (“poet, scop”)), as skalds sometimes wrote insulting poems, though another view is that the Norse and English words are cognate to each other and to Old High German skeltan, Old Dutch skeldan, all inherited from Proto-Germanic *skeldaną (“scold”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /skəʊld/, [skɒʊɫd]
  • (US) IPA(key): /skoʊld/
  • Rhymes: -əʊld

Noun

scold (plural scolds)

  1. A person who habitually scolds, in particular a troublesome and angry woman.
    • c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.:
      A ſclaunderous tunge, a tunge of a ſkolde,
      Worketh more miſchiefe than can be tolde;
      That, if I wiſt not to be controlde,
      Yet ſomwhat to ſay I dare well be bolde,
      How ſome delite for to lye, thycke and threfolde.
    • 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part II, XVIII [Uniform ed., p. 196]:
      “Well, I won’t have it, and that’s enough.” She laughed, for her voice had a little been that of the professional scold.

Alternative forms

  • scould, scolde (obsolete)

Synonyms

  • See Thesaurus:shrew

Related terms

  • scold's bridle

Translations

Verb

scold (third-person singular simple present scolds, present participle scolding, simple past and past participle scolded)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To rebuke angrily.
  2. (ornithology) Of birds, to make harsh vocalisations in aggression.
  3. Of birds, to make vocalisations that resemble human scolding.
  4. Misconstruction of scald

Synonyms

  • See Thesaurus:criticize

Derived terms

  • outscold

Translations

References

Anagrams

  • clods, clos'd, colds

Source: wiktionary.org