girl: meaning and words from its letters
4 letters · 5 letter points · starts with G · ends with L
Meaning of girl
noun
- countable, uncountable
A female child.
Example: I saw a little girl feeding, brushing, and talking to a heifer.
- countable, offensive, sometimes, uncountable
A woman, especially a young and often attractive woman.
Example: He has a crush on a girl at work. We were kidding with him yesterday about his work crush.
- colloquial, countable, uncountable
A term of address to a female (see usage notes)
Example: Hey, girl, I haven't seen you since last week! Where you been?
- colloquial, countable, uncountable
One's girlfriend.
Example: He lucked out with that girl of his. Smart, sweet, sassy, and pretty too.
Listed forms: girls, gal, guhl, gel, girle, gyrle, gorl, gril.
Source: Wiktionary — girl.
verb
- transitive
To feminize or girlify; to gender as a girl or as for girls.
- informal
To staff with or as a girl or girls.
Listed forms: girls, girling, girled, gal, guhl, gel, girle.
Source: Wiktionary — girl.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for girl.
noun
a young female
noun
a youthful female person
- female child
- little girl
noun
a female human offspring
noun
a girl or young woman with whom a man is romantically involved
- girlfriend
- lady friend
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is girl in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of girl
G(2) + I(1) + R(1) + L(1) = 5 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of girl
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from girl
4 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in girl. Showing up to 24, longest first.