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Is bleach a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word bleach is a Scrabble US word. The word bleach is worth 13 points in Scrabble:

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Is bleach a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word bleach is a Scrabble UK word and has 13 points:

B3L1E1A1C3H4

Is bleach a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word bleach is a Words With Friends word. The word bleach is worth 15 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

B4L2E1A1C4H3

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6-letter words (1 found)

BLEACH,

5-letter words (8 found)

BEACH,BELAH,BELCH,BLECH,CABLE,CHELA,HABLE,LEACH,

4-letter words (17 found)

ABLE,ACHE,ALBE,ALEC,BACH,BAEL,BALE,BEAL,BHEL,BLAE,BLAH,CHAL,EACH,HALE,HEAL,LACE,LECH,

3-letter words (20 found)

ACE,ACH,ALB,ALE,BAC,BAE,BAH,BAL,BEL,CAB,CAL,CEL,CHA,CHE,ECH,HAE,LAB,LAC,LAH,LEA,

2-letter words (13 found)

AB,AE,AH,AL,BA,BE,CH,EA,EH,EL,HA,HE,LA,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 60 words from bleach according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of bleach

bleach

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: blēch, IPA(key): /bliːt͡ʃ/
    • (US) IPA(key): [blit͡ʃ]
    • (UK) IPA(key): [bliːt͡ʃ]
  • Rhymes: -iːtʃ

Etymology 1

From Middle English blechen, from Old English blǣċan (“to bleach, whiten”), from Proto-West Germanic *blaikijan, from Proto-Germanic *blaikijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to shine”).

Cognate with Dutch bleken (“to bleach”), German bleichen (“to bleach”), Danish blege, Swedish bleka (“to bleach”). Related to Old English blāc (“pale”) (English blake; compare also bleak).

Noun

bleach (countable and uncountable, plural bleaches)

  1. (uncountable) A chemical, such as sodium hypochlorite or hydrogen peroxide, or a preparation of such a chemical, used for disinfecting or whitening.
  2. (countable) A variety of bleach.
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Verb

bleach (third-person singular simple present bleaches, present participle bleaching, simple past and past participle bleached)

  1. (transitive) To treat with bleach, especially so as to whiten (fabric, paper, etc.) or lighten (hair).
  2. (intransitive) To be whitened or lightened (by the sun, for example).
  3. (intransitive, biology, of corals) To lose color due to stress-induced expulsion of symbiotic unicellular algae.
  4. (transitive, figurative) To make meaningless; to divest of meaning; to make empty.
Synonyms
  • blanch
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Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English bleche, from Old English blǣċu, blǣċo (“paleness, pallor”), from Proto-Germanic *blaikį̄ (“paleness”). See Etymology 1 above.

Noun

bleach (plural bleaches)

  1. An act of bleaching; exposure to the sun.

Etymology 3

From Middle English bleche (also bleke), from Old English blǣċ, blǣc, variants of blāc (“bright, shining, glittering”), from Proto-West Germanic *blaik, from Proto-Germanic *blaikaz (“pale, shining”). More at bleak.

Adjective

bleach (comparative bleacher or more bleach, superlative bleachest or most bleach)

  1. (archaic) Pale; bleak.

Etymology 4

From Middle English bleche, from Old English blǣċe (“irritation of the skin, leprosy; psoriasis”).

Noun

bleach (plural bleaches)

  1. (obsolete) A disease of the skin characterized by hypopigmentation and itching, believed in the 17th century to be a form of leprosy.

Anagrams

  • Blecha, balche, balché

Jamaican Creole

Etymology

From English bleach (whiten). A reference to the fact that as night turns to day the sky gets lighter, as if it is being bleached.

Verb

bleach

  1. To stay awake through the night.

Source: wiktionary.org