danegelt

danegelt is a 8-letter English word with 1 sense as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An annual tax formerly laid on the English nation to buy off the ravages of Danish invaders, or to maintain forces to oppose them. It afterward became a permanent tax, raised by an assessment, at first of one shilling, afterward of two shillings, upon every hide of land throughout the realm. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 1 sense

Definitions

1. noun. An annual tax formerly laid on the English nation to buy off the ravages of Danish invaders, or to maintain forces to oppose them. It afterward became a permanent tax, raised by an assessment, at first of one shilling, afterward of two shillings, upon every hide of land throughout the realm.

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in danegelt:

delegant, detangle

Common word forms

danegelts

Words from these letters

If you are holding these tiles, the unscrambler for DANEGELT lists every valid word you can make from the same letters, including shorter plays.