SOUGH is a valid Scrabble word — 9 points
Yes. SOUGH is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 9 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept SOUGH?
| 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: 32 / 100
Our own measure of how useful SOUGH is to know. It scores 9 from 5 tiles, takes 2 hooks, and its letters make up 4.2% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for SOUGH
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How SOUGH scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in SOUGH, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| s | 1 | 4 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| g | 1 | 3 |
| h | 1 | 2 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 98,031.
What does SOUGH mean in Scrabble?
verb
literarypoetic
To make a soft moaning, sighing or rushing sound, especially of wind moving through trees or grass.
Sough is an old word imitating the low, continuous sound made by air passing through leaves, branches or long grass, somewhere between a whisper and a low roar. Writers reach for it when ordinary words like blow or rustle feel too plain for the mournful, breathy quality of the sound being described. It survives mainly in literary and poetic description of wind and weather rather than in everyday speech.
How SOUGH is used
Literary and somewhat old-fashioned; met chiefly in descriptive writing about wind, trees or weather rather than in ordinary conversation.
- The wind began to sough softly through the pines at nightfall.
- She could hear the sea sough beyond the dunes as she fell asleep.
- A low wind soughed among the reeds along the riverbank.
- The poem describes how the autumn gale soughed through bare branches.
- Only the sough of wind broke the silence of the empty moor.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of SOUGH and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Words starting with SOUGH
4 longer words begin with SOUGH.
Words with SOUGH inside
4 words contain SOUGH in the middle. Words that start with SOUGH are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in SOUGH
Common questions about SOUGH
- Is SOUGH valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts SOUGH, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is SOUGH worth?
- SOUGH is worth 9 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does SOUGH mean?
- To make a soft moaning, sighing or rushing sound, especially of wind moving through trees or grass.
- What letters can be added to SOUGH?
- SOUGH takes 2 hooks: 0 in front and 2 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of SOUGH:
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