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TOUGH
Scrabble Validity
✅ Valid Word
Valid in:
- SOWPODS/CSW (Scrabble UK)
- TWL/NWL (Scrabble US)
- ENABLE (Words with Friends)
Tile Values
T
1
O
1
U
1
G
2
H
4
Σ
9
Definitions
Adjective
- feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad'); "my throat feels bad"; "she felt bad all over"; "he was feeling tough after a restless night"
- substantially made or constructed; "sturdy steel shelves"; "sturdy canvas"; "a tough all-weather fabric"; "some plastics are as tough as metal"
- making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home"
- very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution; "a rugged competitive examination"; "the rugged conditions of frontier life"; "the competition was tough"; "it's a tough life"; "it was a tough job"
- unfortunate or hard to bear; "had hard luck"; "a tough break"
- resistant to cutting or chewing
- physically toughened; "the tough bottoms of his feet"
- not given to gentleness or sentimentality; "a tough character"
- violent and lawless; "the more ruffianly element"; "tough street gangs"
Noun
- a cruel and brutal fellow
- an aggressive and violent young criminal
- someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing
Source: Princeton WordNet 3.1
About the word TOUGH
Yes, TOUGH is a valid Scrabble word. If you play it, you can score 9 points in Scrabble. It is recognized as a playable word in the SOWPODS/CSW (Scrabble UK), TWL/NWL (Scrabble US), ENABLE (Words with Friends) dictionaries.
TOUGH is a 5-letter word. It contains 2 vowels and 3 consonants.