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

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

M3O1U1G2H4T1

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6-letter words (1 found)

MOUGHT,

5-letter words (3 found)

MOUTH,OUGHT,TOUGH,

4-letter words (7 found)

GOTH,GOUT,HOUT,MOTH,MOTU,THOU,THUG,

3-letter words (23 found)

GOT,GUM,GUT,HOG,HOM,HOT,HUG,HUM,HUT,MHO,MOG,MOT,MOU,MUG,MUT,OHM,OUT,THO,TOG,TOM,TUG,TUM,UGH,

2-letter words (14 found)

GO,GU,HM,HO,MO,MU,OH,OM,OU,TO,UG,UH,UM,UT,

You can make 48 words from mought according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of mought

mought

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English moghte, from Old English muhte, late variant of meahte, mihte (“might”) due to the influence of the infinitive *mugan, itself an analogical remodelling of magan (“to be capable, to be able to”) after dugan (“to be useful”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /maʊt/
  • Rhymes: -aʊt

Verb

mought

  1. (obsolete outside dialects) Alternative form of might
  2. (auxiliary, obsolete) past participle of may.
    • 1529, Sir Thomas More, A dyaloge of syr Thomas More knyghte: one of the counsayll of oure souerayne lorde the kyng & chauncellour of hys duchy of Lancaster. Wherin be treatyd dyuers maters, as of the veneration & Worshyp of ymagys & reliques, prayng to sayntys, & goyng on pylgrymage. Wyth many othere thyngys touchyng the pestylent sect of Luther and Tyndale, by the tone bygone in Saxony, and by tother laboryd to be brought in to Englond:
      sythe I suppose in my selfe þt yf we had mought cõuenyẽtly cum to gether ye wold rather haue chosĩ to haue hard my mynde of myn owne mouth thã by þe mean of a nother
      (Modern Spelling) Since I suppose in myself that if we had mought conveniently come together you would rather have chosen to have heard my mind of mine own mouth than by the mean of another.

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Etymology

From Middle English moghte, from Old English muhte, rare variant of meahte, mihte (“might”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɔːt/
  • Homophone: mothe

Verb

mought

  1. might

Related terms

  • mye (“may”)

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 57

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