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weld

/wɛld/noun, verb

weld is spelled W-E-L-D: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 2.1 times per million words in written English, the 18,811th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, weld means “A herb (Reseda luteola) related to mignonette, growing in Europe, and to some extent in America, used to make a yellow dye” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of weld is welds.

How many letters and syllables are in weld?

Letters4: W-E-L-D
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing2.1 times per million words; the 18,811th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 weld?

Weld appears 2.1 times per million words in written English, the 18,811th 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 weld?

  • /wɛld/

Weld has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-weld.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with weld?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as weld.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: lewd.

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 weld

  • woald
  • wold
  • welds present, singular, he/she/it, plural
  • welding participle, present
  • welded participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does weld mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A herb (Reseda luteola) related to mignonette, growing in Europe, and to some extent in America, used to make a yellow dye.

  2. 2

    The yellow coloring matter or dye extracted from this plant.

  3. 3

    The joint made by welding.

verb

  1. 1

    To join two materials (especially two metals) together by applying heat, pressure and filler, either separately or in any combination.

  2. 2

    To make something by welding.

    I've welded a metal sculpture.

  3. 3

    To bind together inseparably; to unite closely or intimately.

    The arrows pierced through the welded ranks of the opposing army.

  4. 4

    obsoleteTo wield.

    [Arthur says to a wicked giant] "he that alle the world weldeth gyue the ſorte lyf & ſameful dethe" ("He who wields all the world gives thee short life and shameful death")

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Weld in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchgaude, réséda des teinturiers (herb), braser, souder (to join materials (especially metals) by…)
GermanFärberwau, Färberresede, Gelbkraut, Gilbkraut (herb), schweißen (to join materials (especially metals) by…), zusammenfügen (to bind, unite)
Portuguesegauda, lírio-dos-tintureiros (herb), soldar (to join materials (especially metals) by…)
Spanishgualda (herb), soldar [duramente], soldar [al duro], weldear, hueldear (to join materials (especially metals) by…), unir (to bind, unite)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does weld come from?

From Middle English welde, wolde, from Old English *weald, weard, variant form of wād, Proto-West Germanic *waiʀd, from Proto-Germanic *waizdaz. Alternatively reborrowed from or contaminated by Anglo-Norman wold, wolde (compare Old French guaide). Doublet of woad. Dutch wouw is derived from the same basic form with -l-.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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