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Is wald a Scrabble word?

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

W4A1L1D2

Is wald a Scrabble UK word?

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

W4A1L1D2

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4-letter words (2 found)

AWDL,WALD,

3-letter words (6 found)

AWL,DAL,DAW,LAD,LAW,WAD,

2-letter words (5 found)

AD,AL,AW,DA,LA,

You can make 13 words from wald according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of wald

wald awld wlad lwad alwd lawd wadl awdl wdal dwal adwl dawl wlda lwda wdla dwla ldwa dlwa aldw ladw adlw dalw ldaw dlaw

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word wald. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in wald.

Definitions and meaning of wald

wald

Alternative forms

  • wauld (Scotland)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wɔːld/
  • Rhymes: -ɔːld

Etymology 1

From Middle English walden, from Old English wealdan (“to rule, control, determine, direct, command, govern, possess, wield, exercise, cause, bring about”), from Proto-West Germanic *waldan, from Proto-Germanic *waldaną (“to reign”), from Proto-Indo-European *waldʰ- (“to be strong, be powerful, prevail, possess”).

Verb

wald (third-person singular simple present walds, present participle walding, simple past and past participle walded)

  1. (UK dialectal, transitive, intransitive) To govern; inherit.

Etymology 2

From Middle English wald, iwald, from Old English weald (“power, authority”), from Proto-Germanic *waldą (“power”), from Proto-Indo-European *waldʰ- (“to be strong, be powerful, prevail, possess”). Cognate with German Gewalt (“force, power, control, violence”), Swedish våld (“force, violence”).

Noun

wald (plural walds)

  1. (UK dialectal) Power; strength.
  2. (UK dialectal) Command; control; possession.
Related terms
  • wield

Etymology 3

From Middle English wald, from Old English weald (“high land covered with wood, woods, forest”), from Proto-West Germanic *walþu, from Proto-Germanic *walþuz, whence also Old High German wald (German Wald) and Old Norse vǫllr (Faroese vøllur, Norwegian voll, Icelandic völlur).

Noun

wald (plural walds)

  1. Forest; woods.
Related terms
  • weald
  • wold

Anagrams

  • Lawd, W.D. La., awdl

Middle English

Noun

wald

  1. Alternative form of wold

Old Danish

Alternative forms

  • wold

Etymology

From Old Norse vald, from Proto-Germanic *walþuz.

Noun

wald

  1. force, violence

Descendants

  • Danish: vold

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *walþu, from Proto-Germanic *walþuz, whence also Old English weald, Old Norse vǫllr.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈwald]

Noun

wald m

  1. forest

Descendants

  • Middle High German: walt
    • Alemannic German: Wald
      Swabian: Wald
    • Bavarian: Woid, Woold
      Cimbrian: balt
      Mòcheno: bòlt
    • Central Franconian: Wald (widely obsolete)
      Hunsrik: Wald
      Luxembourgish: Wal
    • German: Wald
    • Rhine Franconian: Wald, Wall
      Frankfurterisch: [valt]
    • Yiddish: וואַלד (vald)

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *walþu, from Proto-Germanic *walþuz, whence also Old English weald, Old Norse vǫllr.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈwɑlˌd/

Noun

wald m

  1. forest

Declension


Descendants

  • Middle Low German: wôlt, wôld
    • Dutch Low Saxon: woold, woud
    • German Low German: Woolt, Woold, Wold
      • Plautdietsch: Woolt

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