rough: meaning and words from its letters
5 letters · 9 letter points · starts with R · ends with H
Meaning of rough
adj
Not smooth; uneven.
Example: rough hands
Approximate; hasty or careless; not finished.
Example: a rough copy
Turbulent.
Example: rough sea
Difficult; trying.
Example: Being a teenager nowadays can be rough.
Listed forms: rougher, roughest, ruff.
Source: Wiktionary — rough.
noun
The unmowed part of a golf course.
A rude fellow; a coarse bully; a rowdy.
A scuffed and roughened area of the pitch, where the bowler's feet fall, used as a target by spin bowlers because of its unpredictable bounce.
The raw material from which faceted or cabochon gems are created.
Listed forms: roughs, ruff.
Source: Wiktionary — rough.
verb
To create in an approximate form.
Example: Rough in the shape first, then polish the details.
- intransitive
To break the rules by being excessively violent.
To commit the offense of roughing, i.e. to punch another player.
To render rough; to roughen.
Listed forms: roughs, roughing, roughed, ruff.
Source: Wiktionary — rough.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for rough.
adjective
having or caused by an irregular surface
- unsmooth
adjective
not quite exact or correct
- approximate
- approximative
adjective
full of hardship or trials
adjective
violently agitated and turbulent
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is rough in our word lists?
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| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
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Letter-value score of rough
R(1) + O(1) + U(1) + G(2) + H(4) = 9 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of rough
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from rough
15 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in rough. Showing up to 24, longest first.