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Is attach a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word attach is a Scrabble US word. The word attach is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

A1T1T1A1C3H4

Is attach a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word attach is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

A1T1T1A1C3H4

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Yes. The word attach is a Words With Friends word. The word attach is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (2 found)

ATTACH,CHATTA,

4-letter words (7 found)

ACTA,CHAT,TACH,TACT,TAHA,TATH,THAT,

3-letter words (10 found)

AAH,ACH,ACT,AHA,ATT,CAA,CAT,CHA,HAT,TAT,

2-letter words (6 found)

AA,AH,AT,CH,HA,TA,

You can make 25 words from attach according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of attach

attach

Etymology

From Middle English attachen, from Old French atachier, variant of estachier (“bind”), derived from estache (“stick”), from Frankish *stakkā, *stakō (“stick”), from Proto-Germanic *stakô (“pole, bar, stick, stake”). Doublet of attack. More at stake, stack.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /əˈtæt͡ʃ/
  • Rhymes: -ætʃ
  • Hyphenation: at‧tach

Verb

attach (third-person singular simple present attaches, present participle attaching, simple past and past participle attached)

  1. (transitive) To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
    Synonyms: connect, annex, affix, unite; see also Thesaurus:join
    Antonyms: detach, unfasten, disengage, separate; see also Thesaurus:disconnect
  2. (intransitive) To adhere; to be attached.
    Synonyms: cling, stick; see also Thesaurus:adhere
  3. To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.
  4. To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral influence; with to.
  5. To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to.
  6. (obsolete) To take, seize, or lay hold of.
  7. (obsolete, law) To arrest, seize.

Derived terms

Related terms

  • attachment

Translations

Anagrams

  • chatta

Old Irish

Alternative forms

  • atach

Etymology

From ad- + a Celtic pre-form tekʷom. The meaning "refuge" (attested mainly in the Milan glosses, where it is its only sense) is believed to be the original meaning, with its related literal sense vanishing from its associated verb before Old Irish.

Noun

attach n (genitive ataig)

  1. refuge
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 66d1
  2. verbal noun of ad·teich: invocation, beseeching
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 5c17

Inflection

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: attach
    • Irish: atach
    • Scottish Gaelic: atach

Mutation

Further reading

  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “attach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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