JOUGS is valid in Collins, not in North America — 13 points
It depends on the list you play by. JOUGS is in Collins, used in the UK and most of the world, but it is not in the North American lists — so in a US or Canadian game an opponent can challenge it off the board. Worth 13 points. Words with Friends does accept it.
Which word lists accept JOUGS?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Not listed |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful JOUGS is to know. It scores 13 from 5 tiles, takes 0 hooks, and its letters make up 4.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for JOUGS
No single letter turns JOUGS into another word.
How JOUGS scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in JOUGS, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| j | 1 | 1 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 196,061.
What does JOUGS mean in Scrabble?
noun
historicalScots
An iron collar or ring, fixed by a chain to a wall or post, once used in Scotland to publicly restrain and shame an offender.
The jougs worked like a portable pillory: a wrongdoer's neck was locked into the iron collar in a public place, often at a church door or market cross, so that passersby could see the punishment. Because the device itself was the point, jougs is used as the name of the object rather than as an ordinary plural of some other singular word. Scottish parish and burgh records from past centuries mention the jougs as a standard tool of local justice, alongside stocks and the pillory. Today the word survives mainly in histories of Scottish law and in surviving jougs still bolted to old church walls.
How JOUGS is used
Historical term from Scottish law and local justice; encountered today mainly in histories and museum descriptions rather than in current speech.
- The old church door still has the jougs bolted beside it.
- Parish records describe a thief locked in the jougs for a day.
- Visitors can see the rusted jougs hanging at the kirk entrance.
- The jougs served the same shaming purpose as the stocks.
- A local guide explained how the jougs were once used in the square.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of JOUGS and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Shorter words from the letters in JOUGS
Common questions about JOUGS
- Is JOUGS valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts JOUGS, where it scores 17 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is JOUGS worth?
- JOUGS is worth 13 points in Scrabble and 17 points in Words with Friends.
- What does JOUGS mean?
- An iron collar or ring, fixed by a chain to a wall or post, once used in Scotland to publicly restrain and shame an offender.
- What letters can be added to JOUGS?
- No single letter can be added to JOUGS to make another word.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of JOUGS:
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