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Yes. The word clough is a Scrabble US word. The word clough is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

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6-letter words (1 found)

CLOUGH,

5-letter words (5 found)

COUGH,GHOUL,GOUCH,GULCH,LOUGH,

4-letter words (7 found)

CHOG,CHOU,CHUG,CLOG,CLOU,LOCH,OUCH,

3-letter words (11 found)

COG,COL,GUL,HOC,HOG,HUG,LOG,LOU,LUG,OCH,UGH,

2-letter words (9 found)

CH,GO,GU,HO,LO,OH,OU,UG,UH,

You can make 33 words from clough according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of clough

clough

Etymology 1

From Middle English clough, clow, cloȝ, from Old English *clōh, from Proto-Germanic *klanhaz, *klanhō (“cleft, sluice, abyss”), of uncertain origin, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to form into a ball”).

Cognate with Scots cleuch (“gorge; ravine”), Old High German klāh (in placenames), Old High German klingo, klinga (“brook, cataract, gulf, rapids”). Perhaps conflated or influenced by Old Norse klofi (“a cleft or rift in a hill, ravine”); compare Dutch kloof (“a slit, crevice, chink”). See also cling, clove.

Alternative forms

  • cleugh, cleuch (Scotland)
  • cleugh (Northumbria, Cumbria)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /klʌf/, /klaʊ/
  • Rhymes: -ʌf, -aʊ

Noun

clough (plural cloughs)

  1. (Northern England, US) A narrow valley; a cleft in a hillside; a ravine, glen, or gorge.
  2. A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.
  3. (dialectal) The cleft or fork of a tree; crotch.
  4. (dialectal) A wood; weald.
Derived terms
  • Howden Clough

Etymology 2

Noun

clough (plural cloughs)

  1. (historical) Alternative form of cloff (“allowance of two pounds in every three hundredweight”)

References

  • Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “clough”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
  • “clough”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • cleu, clew, cloghe, cloȝ, clou, clouȝ, clow, clowgh

Etymology

From Old English *clōh, from Proto-West Germanic *klą̄h, from Proto-Germanic *klanhaz, *klanhō, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to form into a ball”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kluːx/

Noun

clough (plural cloughes)

  1. A narrow valley; a ravine.
  2. A cliff; a precipice.

Descendants

  • English: clough
  • Geordie English: cleugh
  • Scots: cleuch

References

  • “clǒugh, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Source: wiktionary.org