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"SLOUGHS" is a plural of: slough. |
Date "SLOUGHS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Geography | Natural waterways in many flat prairie sections, through which surface waters find their way, in the spring and at times of heavy rains, into drainage channels. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: SLOUGHS |
| English words defined with "SLOUGHS": abortion pill, Aphthae ♦ Mifepristone ♦ RU 486. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "SLOUGHS": chute checker ♦ Running Footman. (references) |
| "SLOUGHS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "SLOUGHS" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 75% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "SLOUGHS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | waterlopen (draws, runs). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vesireitti (draws, runs), pieni joki (draws, runs). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | dépressions drainant les prairies. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | löst sich ab. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | δίοδοι στραγγίσεως λειμώνων (draws, runs). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oughsslay terras pantanosas (draws, runs), pântano (bog, fen, flush, marish, mere, moor, morass, muskeg, quag, quagmire, sough). (various references) сходить (alight, come off, come off smth., descend, descended, get down, sloughed, step down). (various references) derramadero (spillway). (various references) säsongsavvattningssänka (draws, runs). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"SLOUGHS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Glough, loughts, shoughs, slaugh, sloff, sloough, slought, sluff, stoughs. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SLOUGHS" (pronounced slu"fs) |
| 4 | -l u" f s | bluffs, fluffs. |
| 3 | -u" f s | buffs, cuffs, huffs, muffs, puffs, rebuffs, snuffs, stuffs, toughs. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-h-l-o-s-s-u" | |
-1 letter: ghouls, loughs, slough, soughs. | |
-2 letters: ghoul, gloss, lough, shogs, shuls, slogs, slosh, slugs, slush, solus, sough, souls, sughs. | |
-3 letters: gosh, guls, gush, hogs, hols, hugs, logs, loss, lugs, lush, shog, shul, slog, slug, sols, soul, sous, sugh, ughs. | |
-4 letters: gos, gul, hog, hug, log, lug, ohs, sol, sos, sou, ugh. | |
-5 letters: go, ho, lo, oh. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-h-l-o-s-s-u" | |
+2 letters: goulashes, hourglass, slungshot. | |
+3 letters: glasshouse, longhouses, onslaughts, sloughiest, slungshots. | |
+4 letters: glasshouses, horselaughs, hourglasses, houselights, lighthouses, overslaughs, thoughtless. | |
+5 letters: ghoulishness, slaughterous. | |
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