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5-letter words (2 found)

AUGHT,GHAUT,

4-letter words (5 found)

AUGH,GATH,GHAT,HAUT,THUG,

3-letter words (12 found)

GAT,GAU,GUT,HAG,HAT,HUG,HUT,TAG,TAU,TUG,UGH,UTA,

2-letter words (9 found)

AG,AH,AT,GU,HA,TA,UG,UH,UT,

You can make 28 words from aught according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of aught

aught uaght aguht gauht ugaht guaht auhgt uahgt ahugt haugt uhagt huagt aghut gahut ahgut hagut ghaut hgaut ughat guhat uhgat hugat ghuat hguat augth uagth aguth gauth ugath guath autgh uatgh atugh taugh utagh tuagh agtuh gatuh atguh taguh gtauh tgauh ugtah gutah utgah tugah gtuah tguah auhtg uahtg ahutg hautg uhatg huatg authg uathg atuhg tauhg utahg tuahg ahtug hatug athug tahug htaug thaug uhtag hutag uthag tuhag htuag thuag aghtu gahtu ahgtu hagtu ghatu hgatu agthu gathu atghu taghu gtahu tgahu ahtgu hatgu athgu tahgu htagu thagu ghtau hgtau gthau tghau htgau thgau ughta guhta uhgta hugta ghuta hguta ugtha gutha utgha tugha gtuha tguha uhtga hutga uthga tuhga htuga thuga ghtua hgtua gthua tghua htgua thgua

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Definitions and meaning of aught

aught

Pronunciation

  • (UK) enPR: ôt, IPA(key): /ɔːt/
  • Rhymes: -ɔːt
  • (US) enPR: ôt, IPA(key): /ɔt/
  • (cotcaught merger) enPR: ät, IPA(key): /ɑt/
  • Homophone: ought

Etymology 1

From Middle English aught, ought, from Old English āhtāwiht from ā (always", "ever) + wiht (thing", "creature). More at wight.

Alternative forms

  • owt

Pronoun

aught

  1. (archaic or dialectal) Anything whatsoever, any part.

Adverb

aught (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) At all, in any degree, in any respect.

References

  • “aught”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Etymology 2

Meaning of "zero" by confusion with naught. Used amongst those who were once called "non-U" speakers of English.

Noun

aught (plural aughts)

  1. Whit, the smallest part, iota.
  2. (archaic) Zero.
  3. The digit zero.
    • as the decade in years (for example, aught-nine for 1909 or 2009)
    • in gun calibers (for example, thirty-aught-six for .30-06)
Usage notes

The use of aught and ought to mean "zero" is very much proscribed as the word aught originally meant the opposite of naught: "anything". This may be due to misanalysis, or may simply be the result of speakers confusing the meanings of aught and naught due to similar-sounding phonemes.

Translations
See also
  • naught
  • owt

Etymology 3

From Middle English aught (estimation, regard, reputation), from Old English æht (estimation, consideration), from Proto-West Germanic *ahtu. Cognate with Dutch acht (attention, regard, heed), German Acht (attention, regard). Also see ettle.

Noun

aught (uncountable)

  1. (regional) Estimation.
  2. (regional) Of importance or consequence (in the phrase "of aught").
  3. (regional, rare, obsolete) Esteem, respect.
Usage notes

In the first sense, generally found in the phrase "in one's aught" as inː "In my aught, this play ain't worth the candle". In the second sense, generally found in the phrase "of aught" as inː "nothing of aught has happened since you've been away, Sir". In the third sense, generally found in the phrase "a man of aught", or rarely in the more archaic phrase "to show somebody or something (some) aught" as inː "show your mother some aught, son".

References

  • www.duden.de - Acht
  • The Middle English Dictionary
  • The Dictionary of the Scots Language
  • The Dictionary of the Scots Language

Etymology 4

Originally the past tense of owe.

Verb

aught (third-person singular simple present aughts, present participle aughting, simple past and past participle aughted)

  1. Obsolete or dialectal form of ought

Etymology 5

From Middle English ahte, from Old English eahta (eight). More at eight.

Numeral

aught

  1. Obsolete or dialectal form of eight.

Anagrams

  • ghaut

Yola

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɔːt/

Etymology 1

From Middle English aught, from Old English āht, ōht, shortening of āwiht, ōwiht.

Alternative forms

  • aaght

Pronoun

aught

  1. any, anything

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 23

Etymology 2

Numeral

aught

  1. Alternative form of ayght (eight)
    Numbers: oan, twye, dhree, vowre, veeve, zeese, zeven, aught, ween, dhen.

References

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20050222031415/http://homepage.tinet.ie/~taghmon/histsoc/vol3/chapter4/chapter4.htm

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