ENGILD is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. ENGILD is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 11 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept ENGILD?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 31 / 100
Our own measure of how useful ENGILD is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 6.3% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for ENGILD
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
engildsChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How ENGILD scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in ENGILD, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| e | 1 | 12 |
| n | 1 | 6 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
| l | 1 | 4 |
| d | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 38,325.
What stands out about ENGILD
- The same 6 tiles also spell 3 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does ENGILD mean in Scrabble?
verb
archaicliterarypoetic
To cover or brighten something with gold, or with a light resembling gold.
Engild belongs to a small set of poetic verbs built on gild, and it appears mainly in older literary English describing sunlight rather than actual metal. A writer might say the sunset engilds the hills, meaning the light gives them a golden glow rather than that anyone has applied real gold leaf. Shakespeare and later poets favored the word for exactly this kind of image, and it has stayed almost entirely within literary and poetic writing ever since.
How ENGILD is used
Found almost only in older poetry and deliberately literary prose describing light, rarely in ordinary speech.
- The setting sun seemed to engild every rooftop in the valley.
- Old verses describe how dawn would engild the mountain peaks.
- The poet imagined the moon could engild the quiet water.
- Autumn light began to engild the tops of the tallest trees.
- The stage lighting was meant to engild the actors as if at sunrise.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of ENGILD and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of ENGILD
The 6 tiles of ENGILD in a different order — 3 found.
Words starting with ENGILD
3 longer words begin with ENGILD.
Shorter words from the letters in ENGILD
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Common questions about ENGILD
- Is ENGILD valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts ENGILD, where it scores 11 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is ENGILD worth?
- ENGILD is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 11 points in Words with Friends.
- What does ENGILD mean?
- To cover or brighten something with gold, or with a light resembling gold.
- What letters can be added to ENGILD?
- ENGILD takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of ENGILD:
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