daugh
noun
daugh is spelled D-A-U-G-H: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 141,699th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, daugh means “An obsolete Scots unit equal to 4 ploughgates, notionally comprising 400 Scottish acres” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of daugh is daughs.
How many letters and syllables are in daugh?
| Letters | 5: D-A-U-G-H |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 22 million words; the 141,699th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is daugh?
Daugh appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 141,699th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Forms of daugh
- daughs plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does daugh mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An obsolete Scots unit equal to 4 ploughgates, notionally comprising 400 Scottish acres.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does daugh come from?
Scottish Gaelic dabhach (“vat, large unit of land”); the "land unit" sense may reflect substrate influence on Gaelic from Pictish.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).