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Is wold a Scrabble word?

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

W4O1L1D2

Is wold a Scrabble UK word?

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

W4O1L1D2

Is wold a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word wold is a Words With Friends word. The word wold is worth 9 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

W4O1L2D2

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4-letter words (2 found)

DOWL,WOLD,

3-letter words (6 found)

DOL,DOW,LOD,LOW,OLD,OWL,

2-letter words (5 found)

DO,LO,OD,OW,WO,

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

All 4 letters words made out of wold

wold owld wlod lwod olwd lowd wodl owdl wdol dwol odwl dowl wldo lwdo wdlo dwlo ldwo dlwo oldw lodw odlw dolw ldow dlow

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

Definitions and meaning of wold

wold

Etymology 1

From Middle English wald, wold, from Old English wald, weald (“highland covered with trees, wood, forest”), from Proto-West Germanic *walþu, from Proto-Germanic *walþuz, from Proto-Indo-European *wel(ə)-t-. Doublet of weald.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /wəʊld/
  • (General American) enPR: wōld, IPA(key): /woʊld/
  • Rhymes: -əʊld

Noun

wold (plural wolds)

  1. (archaic, regional) An unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a moor.
  2. (obsolete) A wood or forest, especially a wooded upland.
Usage notes
  • Used in many English placenames, always hilly tracts of land.
  • German Wald is a cognate, but a false friend because it retains the original meaning of forest.
Derived terms
Related terms
  • weald
  • wald

References

  • OED 2nd edition 1989

Etymology 2

From Middle English wolde.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /wəʊld/

Adjective

wold (comparative wolder, superlative woldest)

  1. (archaic, dialect, West Country, Dorset, Devon) Old.

Anagrams

  • dowl, lowd, owld

Middle English

Verb

wold

  1. Alternative spelling of wolde

Middle Low German

Noun

wôld

  1. Alternative spelling of wôlt.

Source: wiktionary.org