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Is gout a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word gout is a Scrabble US word. The word gout is worth 5 points in Scrabble:

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Is gout a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word gout is a Scrabble UK word and has 5 points:

G2O1U1T1

Is gout a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word gout is a Words With Friends word. The word gout is worth 7 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (1 found)

GOUT,

3-letter words (5 found)

GOT,GUT,OUT,TOG,TUG,

2-letter words (6 found)

GO,GU,OU,TO,UG,UT,

You can make 12 words from gout according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of gout

gout ogut guot ugot ougt uogt gotu ogtu gtou tgou otgu togu guto ugto gtuo tguo utgo tugo outg uotg otug toug utog tuog

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word gout. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in gout.

Definitions and meaning of gout

gout

Etymology 1

From Middle English goute, from Old French gote, gute, from Latin gutta (“drop”). Compare Spanish gota (“drop, droplet”). Doublet of goutte, gutta, and gutter.

The sense shift derived from humorism and "the notion of the 'dropping' of a morbid material from the blood in and around the joints".

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ɡaʊt/
  • Rhymes: -aʊt
  • (Canada) IPA(key): [ɡʌut]

Noun

gout (countable and uncountable, plural gouts)

  1. (uncountable, pathology) An extremely painful inflammation of joints, especially of the big toe, caused by a metabolic defect resulting in the accumulation of uric acid in the blood and the deposition of urates around the joints.
    Synonyms: crystalline arthritis, gouty arthritis, urarthritis, rich man's disease
    Hypernym: arthritis
  2. (usually followed by of) A spurt or splotch.
  3. (rare) A disease of wheat and cornstalks, caused by insect larvae.
Alternative forms
  • gowt (obsolete)
Derived terms
  • French gout
  • goutiness
  • gout ivy
  • gout plant
  • gout stalk
  • gout-ridden
  • gouty
  • pseudogout
Related terms
  • gutter
Descendants
  • → Thai: เกาต์ (gáo)
Translations

Verb

gout (third-person singular simple present gouts, present participle gouting, simple past and past participle gouted)

  1. (intransitive) To spurt.

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Etymology 2

French goût

Noun

gout (plural gouts)

  1. (obsolete) Taste; relish.
Related terms

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French

Pronunciation

Noun

gout m (plural gouts)

  1. post-1990 spelling of goût

Further reading

  • “gout”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch golt

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɣout/

Noun

gout n (stem goud-)

  1. gold

Alternative forms

  • golt (Rhinelandic, Limburgish)

Descendants

  • Dutch: goud
    • Afrikaans: goud
    • Berbice Creole Dutch: gautu
    • Negerhollands: gaut, goud, gout
    • Skepi Creole Dutch: gaut
    • → Sranan Tongo: gowtu
      • → Caribbean Javanese: gautu
      • → Saramaccan: góútu
      • → Trió: koutu
  • Limburgish: góldj

Further reading

  • “gout”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “gout”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

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