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Yes. The word ache is a Scrabble US word. The word ache is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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4-letter words (2 found)

ACHE,EACH,

3-letter words (6 found)

ACE,ACH,CHA,CHE,ECH,HAE,

2-letter words (7 found)

AE,AH,CH,EA,EH,HA,HE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 16 words from ache according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of ache

ache cahe ahce hace chae hcae aceh caeh aech each ceah ecah ahec haec aehc eahc heac ehac chea hcea ceha echa heca ehca

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Definitions and meaning of ache

ache

Alternative forms

  • ake (rare)

Etymology 1

From Middle English aken (verb), and ache (noun), from Old English acan (verb) (from Proto-West Germanic *akan, from Proto-Germanic *akaną (“to be bad, be evil”)) and æċe (noun) (from Proto-West Germanic *aki, from Proto-Germanic *akiz), both from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eg- (“sin, crime”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian eeke, ääke (“to ache, fester”), Low German aken, achen, äken (“to hurt, ache”), German Low German Eek (“inflammation”), North Frisian akelig, æklig (“terrible, miserable, sharp, intense”), West Frisian aaklik (“nasty, horrible, dismal, dreary”), Dutch akelig (“nasty, horrible”).

The verb was originally strong, conjugating for tense like take (e.g. I ake, I oke, I have aken), but gradually became weak during Middle English; the noun was originally pronounced as /eɪt͡ʃ/ as spelled (compare breach, from break). Historically the verb was spelled ake, and the noun ache (even after the form /eɪk/ started to become common for the noun; compare again break which is now also a noun). The verb came to be spelled like the noun when lexicographer Samuel Johnson mistakenly assumed that it derived from Ancient Greek ἄχος (ákhos, “pain”) due to the similarity in form and meaning of the two words.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: āk, IPA(key): /ˈeɪk/
  • Rhymes: -eɪk

Verb

ache (third-person singular simple present aches, present participle aching, simple past ached or (obsolete) oke, past participle ached or (obsolete) aken)

  1. (intransitive, stative) To suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued dull pain; to be distressed.
  2. (transitive, literary, rare) To cause someone or something to suffer pain.
Derived terms
  • ache for
Translations

Noun

ache (plural aches)

  1. Continued dull pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain.
Derived terms
Translations

See also

  • hurt

References

  • Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition.

Etymology 2

From Middle English ache, from Old French ache, from Latin apium (“celery”). Reinforced by modern French ache.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: āch, IPA(key): /eɪt͡ʃ/
  • Rhymes: -eɪtʃ

Noun

ache (plural aches)

  2. (obsolete or historical) Parsley.
Derived terms
  • lovage (by folk etymology)
  • smallage

Etymology 3

Representing the pronunciation of the letter H.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: āch, IPA(key): /ˈeɪt͡ʃ/
  • Rhymes: -eɪtʃ

Noun

ache (plural aches)

  1. Rare spelling of aitch.

Anagrams

  • Aceh, Chae, Chea, HACE, each, hace

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aʃ/
  • Rhymes: -aʃ
  • Homophones: hache, haches

Etymology 1

From Latin apia, plural of apium (“celery”).

Noun

ache f (plural aches)

  1. celery (plant)

Etymology 2

Inherited from Middle French ache, from Old French ache, from Vulgar Latin *acca, probably an extension of earlier ha, from an unindentified source. Compare Italian acca.

Noun

ache m (plural aches)

  1. aitch, The name of the Latin-script letter H.
Descendants
  • → Persian: هاش
  • → Romanian: haș
  • → Russian: аш (aš)
  • → Vietnamese: hát

Further reading

  • “ache”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Verb

ache

  1. inflection of achar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English eċe, ace, æċe, from Proto-West Germanic *aki, from Proto-Germanic *akiz. Some forms are remodelled on aken.

Alternative forms

  • ake, eche

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈaːk(ə)/, /ˈaːt͡ʃ(ə)/, /ˈat͡ʃ(ə)/, /ˈɛːt͡ʃ(ə)/, /ˈɛt͡ʃ(ə)/

Noun

ache (plural aches)

  2. Aching; long-lasting hurting or injury.
Related terms
  • aken
  • loveache
Descendants
  • English: ache
  • Scots: ake
References
  • “āche, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-12.

Etymology 2

From Old French ache, from Latin apium.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈat͡ʃ(ə)/, /ˈaːt͡ʃ(ə)/

Noun

ache (plural aches)

  2. A plant of the genus Apium, especially celery.
Descendants
  • English: ache
References
  • “āche, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-12.

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

ache f (uncountable)

  1. (Jersey) wild celery
    Synonym: céléri sauvage

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: (Brazil) -aʃi, (Portugal) -aʃɨ
  • Hyphenation: a‧che

Verb

ache

  1. inflection of achar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Source: wiktionary.org