would: meaning and words from its letters
5 letters · 9 letter points · starts with W · ends with D
Meaning of would
verb
- auxiliary
Past tense of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive. Used to form the "anterior future", or "future in the past", indicating a futurity relative to a past time.
Example: On my first day at University, I met the woman who would become my wife.
- auxiliary
Past tense of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive. Used to, did repeatedly, habitually; indicates an action that happened several times in the past (cannot describe continuous states, as in I used to live in London)
- auxiliary
Past tense of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive. Was or were determined to; indicating someone's insistence upon doing something.
- auxiliary
A modal verb, the subjunctive of will; usually followed by a bare infinitive. Used as the auxiliary of the simple conditional modality, indicating a state or action that is conditional on another.
Example: If I won the lottery, I would give half the money to charity.
Source: Wiktionary — would.
noun
Something that would happen, or would be the case, under different circumstances; a potentiality.
Listed forms: woulds.
Source: Wiktionary — would.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Is would in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of would
W(4) + O(1) + U(1) + L(1) + D(2) = 9 points.
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Anagrams of would
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
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Shorter words from would
17 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in would. Showing up to 24, longest first.