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Is dough a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word dough is a Scrabble US word. The word dough is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

D2O1U1G2H4

Is dough a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word dough is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

D2O1U1G2H4

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Yes. The word dough is a Words With Friends word. The word dough is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (1 found)

DOUGH,

3-letter words (12 found)

DOG,DOH,DUG,DUH,DUO,GOD,HOD,HOG,HUG,OUD,UDO,UGH,

2-letter words (9 found)

DO,GO,GU,HO,OD,OH,OU,UG,UH,

You can make 22 words from dough according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of dough

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Definitions and meaning of dough

dough

Alternative forms

  • dow, doff, duff (dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle English dow, dogh, dagh, from Old English dāg, from Proto-Germanic *daigaz (“dough”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to knead, form, mold”). Cognate with Scots daich, dauch, doach (“dough”), West Frisian daai (“dough”), Dutch deeg (“dough”), Low German Deeg (“dough”), German Teig (“dough”), Norwegian Bokmål deig (“dough”), Danish dej (“dough”), Swedish deg (“dough”), Icelandic deig (“dough”).

The derivation of the second meaning (of money) is obscure, but dates to the mid 19th century.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /dəʊ/
  • (US) IPA(key): /doʊ/ [ˈdö̞ʷʊ̯ʷ]
  • (Northern England) IPA(key): /dʌf/
  • Rhymes: -əʊ
  • Homophones: doh, d'oh, doe, do (in music)

Noun

dough (usually uncountable, plural doughs)

  1. A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, and/or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked.
  2. (slang, somewhat dated) money
  3. (US military slang, countable) clipping of doughboy, infantryman

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Verb

dough (third-person singular simple present doughs, present participle doughing, simple past and past participle doughed)

  1. (transitive) To make into dough.

Derived terms

  • dougher

References

  • Lighter, Jonathan (1972) “The Slang of the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe, 1917-1919: An Historical Glossary”, in American Speech‎[2], volume 47, number 1/2, page 44

Further reading

  • dough on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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