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Is thug a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word thug is a Scrabble US word. The word thug is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

T1H4U1G2

Is thug a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word thug is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

T1H4U1G2

Is thug a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word thug is a Words With Friends word. The word thug is worth 9 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

T1H3U2G3

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4-letter words (1 found)

THUG,

3-letter words (5 found)

GUT,HUG,HUT,TUG,UGH,

2-letter words (4 found)

GU,UG,UH,UT,

You can make 10 words from thug according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of thug

thug htug tuhg uthg hutg uhtg thgu htgu tghu gthu hgtu ghtu tugh utgh tguh gtuh ugth guth hugt uhgt hgut ghut ught guht

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

Definitions and meaning of thug

thug

Etymology

From Hindi ठग (ṭhag, “swindler, fraud, cheat”).

Thuggee was a network of gangs in India from the 17th century to the 19th century who robbed and murdered travellers, often by strangling and beating their victims to death. During British Imperial rule of India, many Indian words passed into common English, and by 1810 thug referred to a member of these Indian gangs. The sense was adopted more generally as "ruffian, cutthroat" by 1839. See also English thatch, deck.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: thŭg, IPA(key): /θʌɡ/
  • (India) IPA(key): /ʈʰəɡ/
  • Rhymes: -ʌɡ

Noun

thug (plural thugs)

  1. A person who is affiliated with a criminal gang or engages in violent criminal activity.
  2. (historical) One of a band of assassins formerly active in northern India who worshipped Kali and sacrificed their victims to her.
    Synonym: phansigar
  3. (horticulture) An overvigorous plant that spreads and dominates the flowerbed.
  4. A violent, aggressive, and truculent criminal.
  5. A wooden bat used in the game of miniten, fitting around the player's hand.

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:villain

Derived terms

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Verb

thug (third-person singular simple present thugs, present participle thugging, simple past and past participle thugged)

  1. To commit acts of thuggery, to live the life of a thug, to menace, to commit crime.
  2. (often with out) To appear as a thug; to dress and act in a manner reminiscent of a thug.

Anagrams

  • Guth

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English thug, from Hindi ठग (ṭhag).

Pronunciation

  • (Belgium, France) IPA(key): /tœɡ/
  • (Quebec) IPA(key): /tɔɡ/

Noun

thug m or f (plural thugs)

  1. (derogatory) thug, yob.

Irish

Pronunciation

  • (Munster, Connacht) IPA(key): /ˈhʊɡ/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈhʌɡ/

Verb

thug

  1. analytic past indicative of tabhair

References

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [huk]

Verb

thug (dependent tug)

  1. past of thoir

Source: wiktionary.org