ladyling
Not valid in Scrabble
It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
- Scrabble points
- 13
- Words With Friends
- 16
- Letters
- 8
Definition of ladyling
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A young, petite, or unimportant lady.
“I now found what was the stimulus proper to excite and arouse fashionable people, such as lordlings and ladylings, for of both had I specimens, was a row of card-tables, to which, after swallowing a cup of tea, [...]”
“All the rest of the place is detestable. But none of these once favourite receptacles have been blest by violent overflows — at least, of visiters — this year. No ; — my lord and my lady, and my lordling and my ladyling, all go abroad: [...]”
“I bid them dance, I bid them sing, For the limpid glance Of my ladyling; For the gift to the Spring of a dewier Spring, For God's good grace of this ladyling!”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From lady + -ling. Compare lordling.
Words you can make from ladyling
111 playable · top: DALLYING (13 pts)
Best play dallying 13 points7-letter words
2 words6-letter words
6 words5-letter words
24 words4-letter words
34 words- AGLY 8 pts
- IDLY 8 pts
- IDYL 8 pts
- LADY 8 pts
- YAGI 8 pts
- YALD 8 pts
- YANG 8 pts
- ALLY 7 pts
- AYIN 7 pts
- ILLY 7 pts
- INLY 7 pts
- LILY 7 pts
- LINY 7 pts
- YILL 7 pts
- DANG 6 pts
- DING 6 pts
- GADI 6 pts
- GILD 6 pts
- GLAD 6 pts
- AGIN 5 pts
- DIAL 5 pts
- DILL 5 pts
- GAIN 5 pts
- GALL 5 pts
- GILL 5 pts
- GLIA 5 pts
- LAID 5 pts
- LAND 5 pts
- LANG 5 pts
- LING 5 pts
- ANIL 4 pts
- LAIN 4 pts
- NAIL 4 pts
- NILL 4 pts
3-letter words
30 words2-letter words
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