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Is burgh a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word burgh is a Scrabble US word. The word burgh is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Is burgh a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word burgh is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

B3U1R1G2H4

Is burgh a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word burgh is a Words With Friends word. The word burgh is worth 13 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (2 found)

BRUGH,BURGH,

4-letter words (3 found)

BUHR,BURG,GRUB,

3-letter words (11 found)

BRU,BUG,BUR,GUB,GUR,HUB,HUG,RUB,RUG,UGH,URB,

2-letter words (4 found)

GU,UG,UH,UR,

You can make 20 words from burgh according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of burgh

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Definitions and meaning of burgh

burgh

Etymology

From Middle English borwe, borgh, burgh, buruh, from Old English burh, from Proto-West Germanic *burg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“city, stronghold”).

Cognate with Dutch burg, French bourg, German Burg, Persian برج (borj, “tower; battlement, fort”), Swedish borg. Doublet of borough, Brough, and Bury.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, Scotland) IPA(key): /ˈbʌɹə/
  • Homophone: borough
  • Rhymes: -ʌɹə
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈbʌɹoʊ/, /bɝɡ/
  • Homophones: berg, burg
  • Rhymes: (one pronunciation) -ɜː(ɹ)ɡ

Noun

burgh (plural burghs)

  1. (Sussex) a small mound, often used in reference to tumuli (mostly restricted to place names).
  2. (UK) a borough or chartered town (now only used as an official subdivision in Scotland).
    • 1815, William Wordsworth, The Excursion, Book Eighth, The Parsonage, lines 95-104, [1]
      With fruitless pains / Might one like me 'now' visit many a tract / Which, in his youth, he trod, and trod again, / A lone pedestrian with a scanty freight, / Wished-for, or welcome, wheresoe'er he came— / Among the tenantry of thorpe and vill; / Or straggling burgh, of ancient charter proud, / And dignified by battlements and towers / Of some stern castle, mouldering on the brow / Of a green hill or bank of rugged stream.

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