# auld

> English word · Adjective · IPA /oʊld/ · frequency rank #31,071

## Definitions
1. Old.

## Etymology
From Scots auld or from Northern Middle English auld, aulde, awld, awlde, ald, alde, from Northumbrian Old English ald, variant of Old English eald (“old, mature, venerable; antique, ancient, primeval”), from Proto-West Germanic *ald, from Proto-Germanic *aldaz (“grown up; old”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eltós (“grown, nourished, matured”). Compare cognate Latin altus (“nourished, raised, grown; tall”). Doublet of old.

## Easily confused with
- **aux** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/auld-vs-aux)
- **auto** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/auld-vs-auto)
- **aunt** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/auld-vs-aunt)
- **aura** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/auld-vs-aura)
- **avid** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/auld-vs-avid)
- **axle** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/auld-vs-axle)
- **Aung** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/auld-vs-aung)
- **auth** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/auld-vs-auth)
- **Aust** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/auld-vs-aust)
- **axed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/auld-vs-axed)
- **awed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/auld-vs-awed)
- **AL** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/al-vs-auld)
- **AD** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ad-vs-auld)
- **AU** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/au-vs-auld)
- **and** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/and-vs-auld)
- **all** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/all-vs-auld)
- **add** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/add-vs-auld)
- **aid** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/aid-vs-auld)
- **Ali** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ali-vs-auld)
- **alt** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/alt-vs-auld)

## Common misspellings (5)
`alud`, `audl`, `auldd`, `aulld`, `uald`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/auld