engild

Questions about engild

What does engild mean?

engild means "decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold".

How many syllables are in engild?

engild has 2 syllables and divides as en-gild under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for engild?

Close synonyms include gild, begild. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is engild a common word?

engild is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.