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Is told a Scrabble word?

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

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Is told a Scrabble UK word?

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

T1O1L1D2

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

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4-letter words (2 found)

DOLT,TOLD,

3-letter words (6 found)

DOL,DOT,LOD,LOT,OLD,TOD,

2-letter words (4 found)

DO,LO,OD,TO,

You can make 12 words from told according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of told

told otld tlod ltod oltd lotd todl otdl tdol dtol odtl dotl tldo ltdo tdlo dtlo ldto dlto oldt lodt odlt dolt ldot dlot

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Definitions and meaning of told

told

Alternative forms

  • tol'

Etymology

From Middle English tolde, talde (first and third person singular preterite), from Old English tealde (first and third person singular preterite), from Proto-Germanic *talid-, preterite stem of Proto-Germanic *taljaną (“to count; tell”), equivalent to tell +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /təʊld/, [ˈtʰɔʊ(ɫ)d], [ˈtʰɒʊ(ɫ)d]
  • (General American) enPR: tōld, IPA(key): /toʊld/
  • (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /tɐʉld/, [tʰɒʊ(ɫ)d]
  • Homophone: tolled
  • Rhymes: -əʊld

Verb

told

  1. simple past and past participle of tell

Anagrams

  • dolt

Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɔl/, [tˢʌlˀ]
  • Homophone: tolv

Noun

told c (singular definite tolden, not used in plural form)

  1. duty, tariff (tax placed on imports or exports)

Declension

Derived terms

  • tolder

Further reading

  • “told” in Den Danske Ordbog
  • told on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtold]
  • Homophone: toldd
  • Rhymes: -old

Etymology 1

Possibly from the verb tol (“to push”) +‎ -d (frequentative suffix).

Verb

told

  1. (transitive) to add, to splice
Conjugation
Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

Etymology 2

tol (“to push”) +‎ -d (personal suffix)

Alternative forms

  • toljad

Verb

told

  1. second-person singular subjunctive present definite of tol

References

Further reading

  • told in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Norwegian Nynorsk

Participle

told (neuter told or tolt, definite singular and plural tolde)

  1. (non-standard since 2012) past participle of tole

Verb

told

  1. (non-standard since 2012) supine of tole

Yola

Verb

told

  1. Alternative form of tolth

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 40

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