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Is cough a Scrabble word?

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

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Is cough a Scrabble UK word?

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

C3O1U1G2H4

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

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5-letter words (2 found)

COUGH,GOUCH,

4-letter words (4 found)

CHOG,CHOU,CHUG,OUCH,

3-letter words (6 found)

COG,HOC,HOG,HUG,OCH,UGH,

2-letter words (8 found)

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

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

All 5 letters words made out of cough

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Definitions and meaning of cough

cough

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kɒf/
  • (Conservative RP) IPA(key): /kɔːf/
  • (General American) enPR: kôf, IPA(key): /kɔf/
  • (Canada, cot–caught merger) enPR: kŏf, IPA(key): /kɑf/
  • Homophone: qoph (one pronunciation, cot-caught merger)
  • Rhymes: -ɒf, -ɔːf

Etymology 1

From Middle English coughen, coghen (“to cough; to vomit”) [and other forms], from Old English *cohhian (compare Old English cohhetan (“to bluster; to riot; to cough (?)”)), from Proto-West Germanic *kuh- (“to cough”), ultimately of onomatopoeic origin.

Verb

cough (third-person singular simple present coughs, present participle coughing, simple past and past participle coughed)

  1. (transitive)
    2. Sometimes followed by up: to force (something) out of the lungs or throat by pushing air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound), and out through the mouth.
    3. To cause (oneself or something) to be in a certain condition in the manner described in sense 1.1.
    4. To express (words, etc.) in the manner described in sense 1.1.
    5. (figurative)
      1. To surrender (information); to confess.
      2. (originally US, slang) Chiefly followed by up: to give up or hand over (something); especially, to pay up (money).
  2. (intransitive)
    2. To push air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound) and out through the mouth, usually to expel something blocking or irritating the airway.
    3. To make a noise like a cough.
    4. (originally US, slang) To surrender information; to confess, to spill the beans.
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Etymology 2

The noun is derived from Middle English cough (“a cough; illness causing coughing”) [and other forms], from coughen (verb): see etymology 1.

The interjection is probably derived from the noun.

Noun

cough (plural coughs)

  2. A sudden, often involuntary expulsion of air from the lungs through the glottis (causing a short, explosive sound), and out through the mouth.
  3. A bout of repeated coughing (verb sense 2.1); also, a medical condition that causes one to cough.
    (medical condition): Synonym: tussis
  4. (figurative) A noise or sound like a cough (sense 1).
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Interjection

cough

  1. Used to represent the sound of a cough (noun sense 1), especially when focusing attention on a following utterance, often an attribution of blame or a euphemism: ahem.
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Further reading

  • cough on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • gouch

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • cogh, coght, couth, couwe

Etymology

From coughen.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɔu̯x/, /kɔx/

Noun

cough (uncountable)

  1. coughing

Descendants

  • English: cough
  • Yola: keough

References

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

Source: wiktionary.org