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You can make 27 words from ought according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of ought

ought uoght oguht gouht ugoht guoht ouhgt uohgt ohugt hougt uhogt huogt oghut gohut ohgut hogut ghout hgout ughot guhot uhgot hugot ghuot hguot ougth uogth oguth gouth ugoth guoth outgh uotgh otugh tough utogh tuogh ogtuh gotuh otguh toguh gtouh tgouh ugtoh gutoh utgoh tugoh gtuoh tguoh ouhtg uohtg ohutg houtg uhotg huotg outhg uothg otuhg touhg utohg tuohg ohtug hotug othug tohug htoug thoug uhtog hutog uthog tuhog htuog thuog oghtu gohtu ohgtu hogtu ghotu hgotu ogthu gothu otghu toghu gtohu tgohu ohtgu hotgu othgu tohgu htogu thogu ghtou hgtou gthou tghou htgou thgou ughto guhto uhgto hugto ghuto hguto ugtho gutho utgho tugho gtuho tguho uhtgo hutgo uthgo tuhgo htugo thugo ghtuo hgtuo gthuo tghuo htguo thguo

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

Definitions and meaning of ought

ought

Etymology 1

From Middle English oughte, aughte, aȝte, ahte, from Old English āhte, first and third person singular past tense of Old English āgan (“to own, possess”), equivalent to owe +‎ -t.

Cognate with Sanskrit ईश्वर (īśvará, “capable of, liable”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɔːt/
• Rhymes: -ɔːt
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɔt/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ɑt/
• Homophone: aught

Verb

ought

1. (obsolete) simple past of owe

Verb

ought

1. (auxiliary) Indicating duty or obligation.

2. (auxiliary) Indicating advisability or prudence.

3. (auxiliary) Indicating desirability.

4. (auxiliary) Indicating likelihood or probability.

Usage notes

• Ought is an auxiliary verb; it takes a following verb as its complement. This following verb may appear either as a full infinitive (such as “to go”) or a bare infinitive (such as simple “go”), depending on region and speaker; the same range of meanings is possible in either case. Additionally, it's possible for ought not to take any complement, in which case a verb complement is implied, as in, “You really ought to [do so].”
• The negative of ought is either ought not (to) or oughtn't (to) (yet oughtn't've: oughtn't *(to) have)

Synonyms

• should (In all senses)
• be supposed to

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• ought to
• Appendix:English modal verbs
• Appendix:English tag questions

Pronoun

ought

1. Alternative spelling of aught; anything

Adverb

ought (not comparable)

1. Alternative spelling of aught; at all, to any degree.

Noun

ought (plural oughts)

1. A statement of what ought to be the case as contrasted with what is the case.

See also

• aught
• naught
• nought

References

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

Etymology 2

Noun

ought (plural oughts)

1. Alternative spelling of aught; cipher, zero, nought.

Anagrams

• tough

Middle English

Alternative forms

• ouȝt, eawiht, aht, aught, auht, aut

Etymology

From Old English āht, ōht, shortening of āwiht, ōwiht.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔu̯xt/, /au̯xt/

Pronoun

ought

1. anything, everything
2. something

Descendants

• English: ought, aught, owt
• Scots: owt
• Yola: aught, aaght

References

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