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Yes. The word brach is a Scrabble US word. The word brach is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word brach is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

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5-letter words (1 found)

BRACH,

4-letter words (6 found)

ARCH,BACH,CARB,CHAR,CRAB,RACH,

3-letter words (11 found)

ACH,ARB,ARC,BAC,BAH,BAR,BRA,CAB,CAR,CHA,RAH,

2-letter words (6 found)

AB,AH,AR,BA,CH,HA,

You can make 24 words from brach according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of brach

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Definitions and meaning of brach

brach

Etymology 1

Originally in plural, from Old French brachez, plural of brachet, a diminutive of Occitan brac, from Frankish. Cognate to the German Bracke. More at brachet.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɹæt͡ʃ/
  • Rhymes: -ætʃ

Noun

brach (plural brachs or braches)

  1. (archaic) A hound; especially a female hound used for hunting, a bitch hound.
    • , NYRB 2001, vol.1 p.331:
      A sow-pig by chance sucked a brach, and when she was grown, “would miraculously hunt all manner of deer, and that as well, or rather better than any ordinary hound.”
  2. (archaic, derogatory) A despicable or disagreeable woman.
Synonyms
  • bitch

See also

  • brachet

Etymology 2

Clipping of brachiopod.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɹæk/
  • Rhymes: -æk

Noun

brach (plural brachs)

  1. (paleontology, informal) brachiopod

Anagrams

  • B.Arch., Barch

Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech brach. By surface analysis, bratr (“brother”) +‎ -ch.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈbrax]
  • Hyphenation: brach

Noun

brach m anim

  1. (colloquial) bro
  2. (colloquial) guy

Declension

Further reading

  • brach in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • brach in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
  • brach in Internetová jazyková příručka

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /braːx/, [bʁaːχ]

Etymology 1

Backformation from brachliegen, from in Brache liegen, from the noun Brache (“fallow land, fallowness”). Cognate with Dutch braak. Related with brechen (etymology 2).

Adjective

brach (strong nominative masculine singular bracher, not comparable)

  1. fallow
    Synonyms: unbestellt, unbebaut
Declension
Derived terms
  • Brachland
Related terms
  • Brache
  • brachliegen (brach liegen)

Etymology 2

Verb

brach

  1. first/third-person singular preterite of brechen

Irish

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

brach m (genitive singular bracha)

  1. pus
  2. discharge from eyes during sleep
Declension
Derived terms
  • brachaí (“bleary”, adjective) (of eyes)
  • brachshúileach (“blear-eyed”, adjective)

Etymology 2

Noun

brach f (genitive singular braiche)

  1. Alternative form of braich (“malt”)
Declension

Verb

brach (present analytic brachann, future analytic brachfaidh, verbal noun brachadh, past participle brachta)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) Alternative form of braich (“malt”)
Conjugation

Mutation

Further reading

  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “brach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Old Czech

Etymology

From bratr +‎ -ch.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (13th CE) /ˈbrax/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /ˈbrax/

Noun

brach m pers

  1. Diminutive of bratr
  2. brother
  3. friend
  4. lover

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Czech: brach

References

  • Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “brach”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /brax/
  • Rhymes: -ax
  • Syllabification: brach

Etymology 1

Clipping of brat + -ch.

Noun

brach m pers

  1. (colloquial) bro (comrade or friend)
    Coordinate term: siora
Declension
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

brach m inan

  1. locative plural of ber
    Synonym: berach

Further reading

  • brach in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • brach in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Source: wiktionary.org