Is BOG a Scrabble word?
Yes. BOG is a valid Scrabble word in both tournament lists, NWL2023 and Collins, and in ENABLE. It scores 6 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends.
Meaning An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking.
Noun 3 meanings
An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking.
“Near-synonyms: fen, slough, moor”
Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas.
Chicken bog.
Verb 4 meanings
To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland.
To prevent or slow someone or something from making progress.
To sink and stick in bogland.
To be prevented or impeded from making progress, to become stuck.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English bog (originally chiefly in Ireland and Scotland), from Irish and Scottish Gaelic bogach (“soft, boggy ground”), from Old Irish bog (“soft”), from Proto-Celtic *buggos (“soft, tender”) + Old Irish -ach, from Proto-Celtic *-ākos.
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BOG at a glance
BOG has 3 letters and scores 6 points in Scrabble (B 3 + O 1 + G 2) and 8 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #18,129 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins (older SOWPODS edition).
Words ending in -BOG
More endings- EMBOG10
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