wold

Plural: wolds

Noun

An open, usually elevated, tract of land or country.
a tract of open rolling country (especially upland)
An unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a moor.
A wood or forest, especially a wooded upland.

Adj

Old.

Examples

He placed WOLD on the board, imagining a vast, open Scrabble landscape.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English wald, wold, from Old English wald, weald (“highland covered with trees, wood, forest”), from Proto-West Germanic *walþu, from Proto-Germanic *walþuz, from Proto-Indo-European *wel(ə)-t-. Doublet of weald.
Cognates
See also Norwegian voll (“field, meadow”), Welsh gwallt (“hair”), Lithuanian váltis (“oat awn”), Serbo-Croatian vlât (“ear (of wheat)”), Ancient Greek λάσιος (lásios, “hairy”)); also the related term weald.

Scrabble Score: 8

wold: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
wold: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
wold: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 9

wold: valid Words With Friends Word