HAUGH is a valid Scrabble word — 12 points
Yes. HAUGH is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 12 points in Scrabble and 12 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept HAUGH?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 40 / 100
Our own measure of how useful HAUGH is to know. It scores 12 from 5 tiles, takes 3 hooks, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for HAUGH
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How HAUGH scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in HAUGH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| h | 2 | 2 |
| a | 1 | 9 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 697,107.
What stands out about HAUGH
- HAUGH begins and ends with the same letter.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does HAUGH mean in Scrabble?
noun
Scots
A stretch of low, flat land beside a river, often flooded and used as meadow or pasture.
A haugh sits in the river valley below the surrounding higher ground, and its rich, regularly flooded soil makes it good grazing or hay land. The word haugh is chiefly Scottish, appearing often in place names and in older descriptions of farmland along rivers. Farmers valued a haugh for its fertility even though the same low position made it prone to flooding.
How HAUGH is used
Chiefly Scots, used for river-meadow land and preserved in Scottish place names.
- The cattle grazed on the haugh beside the river.
- Floodwater regularly covers the haugh in early spring.
- The best hay on the farm came from the haugh.
- Old maps label the haugh below the castle.
- Local place names still recall the ancient haugh.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of HAUGH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with HAUGH
8 longer words begin with HAUGH.
Words ending in HAUGH
1 words end in HAUGH. Useful as a back hook: play HAUGH onto a word already on the board.
Words with HAUGH inside
1 words contain HAUGH in the middle. Words that start with HAUGH are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in HAUGH
Common questions about HAUGH
- Is HAUGH valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts HAUGH, where it scores 12 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is HAUGH worth?
- HAUGH is worth 12 points in Scrabble and 12 points in Words with Friends.
- What does HAUGH mean?
- A stretch of low, flat land beside a river, often flooded and used as meadow or pasture.
- What letters can be added to HAUGH?
- HAUGH takes 3 hooks: 1 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of HAUGH:
Open HAUGH in the Word Finder