Definitions for lilt

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Spelling: [lilt]
IPA: /lɪlt/

Lilt is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 20 anagrams from letters in lilt (illt).

Definitions for lilt

noun

  1. rhythmic swing or cadence.
  2. a lilting song or tune.

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to sing or play in a light, tripping, or rhythmic manner.

Origin of lilt

1300-50; Middle English lulte; perhaps akin to Dutch lul pipe, lullen to lull

Examples for lilt

Perhaps it was the lilt of a Gaelic song in these pages that brought a sorrow on me.

“I would expect that,” he says in a soft tenor voice, with the hint of a Southern lilt.

As Morris shares his side of the story, his voice whispers across the phone line, a gentle Southern lilt kissing every syllable.

Through the window came to him the lilt of the fresh young voice.

Was that indeed the end of it all, of the hope, the lilt, the glory?

That the fisherman's daughter with the Island lilt in her voice—well he recalled it!

His voice carries some of the Bavarian lilt of Werner Herzog, and he looks slightly like Daniel Day-Lewis when he laughs.

No one who can play dance music with that lilt can be as cold as a stone—.

“I was starting a new collection and feeling a little depressed,” the 45-year-old says with her strong Gallic lilt.

(Twig to the lilt, I have got it all right)Sleep, little babe, sleep on!

Word Value for lilt
Scrable

4

Words with friends

6

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