Gruff is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 23 anagrams from letters in gruff (ffgru).
1525-35; Middle Dutch grof coarse; cognate with German grob
I could hear the voice of a woman and then the gruff tones of a man.
Bichir manages to be gruff but sensitive, honest yet mysterious, making Ruiz a mix of righteousness and compassion.
“Seventeen, an it please your grace,” said Stephen, in the gruff voice of his age.
A gruff voice from the doorway broke harshly in upon a measure.
I want you to tell me why Mr Haredale—oh, how gruff he is again, to be sure!
Jamie Dimon, the gruff, silver-haired chief executive officer and chairman of JPMorgan Chase, is facing an unlikely challenge.
He has played the gruff detective from 1987 to 2000 on Morse and from 2006 to the present on Inspector Lewis.
Bismarck leaned over and in his gruff way asked, “Give me a match!”
Even her husband, a gruff French surgeon who is more “Tiger Mom” than doting dad, thought the email was a bit curt.
To the hordes who wanted time with Lincoln, the gruff and efficient Nicolay was the “grim enforcer.”