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Is slough a Scrabble word?

Yes, slough is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 10 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of slough?

Definition

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To shed skin or outer layers.Examples: "This skin is being sloughed."; "Snakes slough their skin periodically."; "When Harper came back into the infirmary of the Hyperion, Alec was laboriously trying to pull on his pants. His burned skin had healed over the intervening day, the damaged layer sloughed off and quickly replaced thanks to SAM’s efforts, but the buildup of waste products in Alec’s body from the accelerated healing had left him with sore muscles and achy joints."transitive

2. (intransitive) To slide off or flake off, as an outer layer, such as skin, might do.Examples: "A week after he was burned, a layer of skin on his arm sloughed off."; "The mud sloughed off her palms easily […]"; "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."intransitive

3. (transitive, card games) To discard.Examples: "East sloughed a heart."transitive

4. (intransitive, slang, Western US) To commit truancy, be absent from school without permission.Synonyms: ditchUSWesternintransitiveslang

noun (English)

1. (British) A muddy or marshy area.Examples: ""That comed - as you call it - of being arrant asses," retorted the doctor, "and not having sense enough to know honest air from poison, and the dry land from a vile, pestiferous slough."; "Notwithstanding this discrepancy, however, and though, taught by experience, I hastened to agree with her that the secret of her birth was not likely to be discovered in a moment, nor by so simple a process as the journey to Norwich, which I had been going to suggest, it was natural that we should often revert to the subject, and to her pretensions, and the hardship of her lot: and my curiosity and questions giving a fillip to her memory, scarcely a day passed but she recovered some new detail from the past; as at one time a service of gold-plate which she perfectly remembered she had seen on her father's sideboard; and at another time an accident that had befell her in her childhood, through her father's coach and six horses being overturned in a slough."British

2. (Eastern US) 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.Examples: "We paddled under a canopy of trees through the slough."; "At that time I had no staff officer who could be trusted with that duty. In the woods, at a short distance below the clearing, I found a depression, dry at the time, but which at high water became a slough or bayou."EasternUS

3. (Western US) A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide.Examples: "The Sacramento River Delta contains dozens of sloughs that are often used for water-skiing and fishing."USWestern

4. (Canadian Prairies) A small pond, often alkaline, many but not all formed by glacial potholes.Examples: "Potholes or sloughs formed by a glacier’s retreat from the central plains of North America, are now known to be some of the world’s most productive ecosystems."Canadian-Prairies

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "slough"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "slough"?

Scrabble
10 points
S1
L1
O1
U1
G2
H4
Words With Friends
12 points
S1
L2
O1
U2
G3
H3

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