eld
/ɛld/noun
eld is spelled E-L-D: 3 letters. It appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 62,894th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, eld means “One's age, age in years, period of life” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in eld?
| Letters | 3: E-L-D |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 4 million words; the 62,894th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is eld?
Eld appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 62,894th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce eld?
- /ɛld/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-eld.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with eld?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as eld.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: led, del, dle.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of eld
- elth
- eild
- eeld
- ild
- yeeld
- elder comparative
- eldest superlative
- elds present, singular, he/she/it
- elding participle, present
- elded participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does eld mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
rareOne's age, age in years, period of life.
A forlyued cok leiþ eiren in his laste elde... and ȝif any venemous worme sittiþ on broode þerevppon in þe canyculer dayes, þerof is igendrid... a cocatrice.
- 2
archaicOld age, senility; an old person.
- 3
archaicTime; an age, an indefinitely long period of time.
- 4
archaicFormer ages, antiquity, olden times.
adjective
- 1
obsoleteOld.
verb
- 1
archaicTo age, become or grow old.
- 2
archaicTo delay; linger.
- 3
archaicTo make old, age.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does eld come from?
From Middle English elde, from Old English ieldu, eldo, ieldo (“age, period of time; period; time of life, years; mature or old age, eld; an age of the world, era, epoch”), from Proto-West Germanic *aldī, from Proto-Germanic *alþį̄ (“eld, age”), from *aldaz (“grown up, mature, old”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eltós, from *h₂el- (“to raise, feed”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).