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pough

obsolete

pough is spelled P-O-U-G-H: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 62 million words in written English, the 246,401st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, pough means “A bag” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of pough is poughs.

How many letters and syllables are in pough?

Letters5: P-O-U-G-H
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 62 million words; the 246,401st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is pough?

Pough appears about once in every 62 million words in written English, the 246,401st 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).

How do you pronounce pough?

    Pough has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    Forms of pough

    • pouge
    • powghie
    • poghe

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    What does pough mean?

    The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

    noun

    1. 1

      obsoleteA bag.

    2. 2

      obsoleterareA goitre.

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    Where does pough come from?

    From Middle English pogh, powhe, from Old English pohha, a variant of pocca (“poke, bag, pouch”), from Proto-West Germanic *pokō, from Proto-Germanic *puhô (“bag”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew-, *bʰew- (“to blow, swell”).

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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