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Is slough a Scrabble word?

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

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Is slough a Scrabble UK word?

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

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Yes. The word slough is a Words With Friends word. The word slough is worth 12 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (3 found)

GHOULS,LOUGHS,SLOUGH,

5-letter words (3 found)

GHOUL,LOUGH,SOUGH,

4-letter words (20 found)

GOSH,GULS,GUSH,HOGS,HOLS,HUGS,HUSO,LOGS,LOSH,LOUS,LUGS,LUSH,SHOG,SHUL,SLOG,SLUG,SOUL,SUGH,SUGO,UGHS,

3-letter words (20 found)

GOS,GUL,GUS,HOG,HOS,HUG,LOG,LOS,LOU,LUG,OHS,OUS,SHO,SOG,SOH,SOL,SOU,SUG,UGH,UGS,

2-letter words (12 found)

GO,GU,HO,LO,OH,OS,OU,SH,SO,UG,UH,US,

You can make 58 words from slough according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of slough

slough

Etymology 1

From Middle English slogh, slugh, slouh, from Proto-Germanic *sluk-, perhaps related to *sleupaną (“to slip, sneak”) (compare Gothic 𐍃𐌻𐌹𐌿𐍀𐌰𐌽 (sliupan)).

Akin to Middle Low German slô (“sheath, skin on a hoof”). Perhaps also related with Old Saxon slūk (“snakeskin”), Middle High German slūch, whence German Schlauch (“waterskin, hose”).

Alternative forms

  • sluff

Pronunciation

  • enPR: slŭf, IPA(key): /slʌf/
  • Rhymes: -ʌf

Noun

slough (countable and uncountable, plural sloughs)

  1. The skin shed by a snake or other reptile.
    That is the slough of a rattler; we must be careful.
  2. Dead skin on a sore or ulcer.
    This is the slough that came off of his skin after the burn.
Translations

Verb

slough (third-person singular simple present sloughs, present participle sloughing, simple past and past participle sloughed)

  1. (transitive) To shed skin or outer layers.
    This skin is being sloughed.
    Snakes slough their skin periodically.
  2. (intransitive) To slide off or flake off, as an outer layer, such as skin, might do.
    A week after he was burned, a layer of skin on his arm sloughed off.
    • 1944 United States. Bureau of Mines · War Minerals Report 386. Google books
      The adit penetrated the vug ... and at this level ... it was filled with material that had ... sloughed off the walls.
  3. (transitive, card games) To discard.
    East sloughed a heart.
  4. (intransitive, slang, Western US) To commit truancy, be absent from school without permission.
    Synonym: ditch
Derived terms
  • slough off
  • sloughage
Translations

Etymology 2

From Old English slōh, probably from Proto-Germanic *slōhaz.

Pronunciation

  • (General Australian, UK):
    • enPR: slou, IPA(key): /slaʊ/
    • Rhymes: -aʊ
  • (US): enPR: slou, slo͞o, IPA(key): /slaʊ/, /sluː/
    • Rhymes: -aʊ, -uː

Noun

slough (plural sloughs)

  2. (UK) A muddy or marshy area.
  3. (Eastern United States) A type of swamp or shallow lake system, typically formed as or by the backwater of a larger waterway, similar to a bayou with trees.
  4. (Western US) A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide.
  5. A state of depression.
  6. (Canadian Prairies) A small pond, often alkaline, many but not all formed by glacial potholes.
Derived terms
  • sloughgrass
  • slough of despond
  • sloughy
  • slough hay
  • slough shark
Translations

Anagrams

  • Loughs, ghouls, loughs

Source: wiktionary.org