gilt

Other forms of gilt

plural

gilts·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gilt

What does gilt mean?

gilt means "a coating of gold or of something that looks like gold". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gilt?

gilt has 1 syllable: gilt. In IPA it is /ˈɡɪlt/.

What is another word for gilt?

Close synonyms include gilding, aureate, gilded, gold, golden. 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 gilt a common word?

gilt 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.

What rhymes with gilt?

1 word rhymes with gilt. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.