Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sold

/soʊld/

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.97 in modern English

Syllables: sold
IPA: /soʊld/

5

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

simple past and past participle of sell

adj

Convinced, won over.

Informal

noun

salary; military pay

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"I type ‘high cortisol’ into the search bar and keep scrolling. ‘You’re not ugly, you just have cortisol face,’ declares one video. ‘POV you finally drop the cortisol belly,’ reads another. A third screams in caps lock, ‘HOW TO LOWER CORTISOL’. I’m sold. Cortisol is to blame for everything. But how do I fix it?"
"But were your will her sold to entertaine"
"Lying in campe under sold and pay, fighting as souldiers."

Etymology

From Middle English solde, sould, soud, from Middle French solde, Italian soldo. Compare soldier and Danish sold (via Low German). Doublet of sol, soldo, solid, solidus, sou, and xu.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: *solh₂-, solde, soldo

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /soʊld/
British English: /səʊld/

Usage

Inflected Forms

more sold (comparative) most sold (superlative)

Derived Forms

oversold undersold unsold

Rhymes With

old told hold gold cold controlled bold rolled fold enrolled mold behold

Questions

How do you pronounce sold?: The recorded pronunciation is /soʊld/.
What does sold mean?: simple past and past participle of sell
Where does sold come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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