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

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Yes. The word draught is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

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7-letter words (1 found)

DRAUGHT,

6-letter words (3 found)

DURGAH,RAUGHT,TUGHRA,

5-letter words (5 found)

AUGHT,GARTH,GHAUT,GUARD,TUGRA,

4-letter words (37 found)

ARGH,AUGH,DARG,DART,DAUR,DAUT,DRAG,DRAT,DRUG,DUAR,DURA,GART,GATH,GAUD,GAUR,GHAT,GRAD,GRAT,GUAR,HARD,HART,HAUD,HAUT,HURT,RAGU,RATH,RATU,RUGA,RUTH,TAHR,THAR,THRU,THUD,THUG,TRAD,TRUG,TURD,

3-letter words (32 found)

ARD,ART,DAG,DAH,DUG,DUH,GAD,GAR,GAT,GAU,GUR,GUT,HAD,HAG,HAT,HUG,HUT,RAD,RAG,RAH,RAT,RUD,RUG,RUT,TAD,TAG,TAR,TAU,TUG,UGH,URD,UTA,

2-letter words (13 found)

AD,AG,AH,AR,AT,DA,GU,HA,TA,UG,UH,UR,UT,

You can make 91 words from draught according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of draught

draught

Etymology

From Middle English draught, draght, draȝt, from Old English *dreaht, *dræht (related to dragan (“to draw, drag”)), from Proto-Germanic *drahtuz, noun form of *draganą; equivalent to draw +‎ -t.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /dɹɑːft/
    Rhymes: -ɑːft
  • (US) IPA(key): /dɹæft/
    Rhymes: -æft
  • Homophone: draft

Noun

draught (countable and uncountable, plural draughts)

  1. (British spelling) Alternative form of draft in some of its senses.
    Sense 1 of draft:
    • Senses 17, 18 of draft:
    • Senses 3, 4 of draft:
    • Sense 5 of draft:
    • Senses 4, 5 of draft: 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter iii:
      Much as I wish that I had not to write this chapter, I know that I shall have to swallow many such bitter draughts in the course of this narrative. And I cannot do otherwise, if I claim to be a worshipper of Truth. […]
    • Sense 7 of draft:
  2. (British) A checker: a game piece used in the game of draughts.
  3. (Australia) Ale: a type of beer brewed using top-fermenting yeast.
  4. (UK, medicine, obsolete) A mild vesicatory.
  5. (obsolete) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
  6. (UK, obsolete) Any picture or drawing.
  7. (UK, obsolete) A sudden attack upon an enemy.

Synonyms

  • (outhouse): draught-house; see also Thesaurus:bathroom
  • (game piece): checker (used in checkers)

Derived terms

Related terms

  • draw

Translations

Adjective

draught (not comparable)

  1. (British spelling) The British form of draft.

Verb

draught (third-person singular simple present draughts, present participle draughting, simple past and past participle draughted)

  1. (British spelling) Alternative spelling of draft

Usage notes

There are senses used in American English which do not apply in British English.

References

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

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • draucht, drauht, draght, draht

Etymology

From Old English dreaht, *dræht (related to dragan (“to draw, drag”)), from Proto-Germanic *drahtuz, equivalent to drawen +‎ -th.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /drau̯xt/

Noun

draught (plural draughtes)

  1. draught

Descendants

  • English: draught
  • Scots: draucht
  • Yola: draught, draft

References

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

Yola

Alternative forms

  • draft

Etymology

From Middle English draught, from Old English dreaht, *dræht (related to dragan (“to draw, drag”)), from Proto-Germanic *drahtuz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɾɔːt/, /dɾaɸt/

Noun

draught

  1. A drawing stroke with a weapon.

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 36

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