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

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

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5-letter words (2 found)

CACHE,CHACE,

4-letter words (3 found)

ACHE,CECA,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 19 words from cache according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of cache

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Definitions and meaning of cache

cache

Etymology 1

From French cache (as used by French Canadian trappers to mean “hiding place for stores”), from the verb cacher (“to hide”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) enPR: kăsh, IPA(key): /kæʃ/;
  • (US, General Australian) enPR: kăsh, kāsh, IPA(key): /kæʃ/, /keɪʃ/; (proscribed) /kæˈʃeɪ/, /ˈkæʃ.eɪ/
  • Rhymes: -æʃ
  • Rhymes: -eɪʃ
  • Homophones: cash, cachet (for the proscribed pronunciation)
  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /kæɪʃ/
  • Rhymes: -eɪʃ

Noun

cache (plural caches)

  1. A store, protected or hidden in some way, of things that may be required in the future, such that they can be retrieved rapidly.
  2. (computing) A fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium.
  3. (geocaching) A container containing treasure in a global treasure-hunt game.
Usage notes

Sometimes confused with cachet.

Hyponyms
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
References
  • JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

Verb

cache (third-person singular simple present caches, present participle caching, simple past and past participle cached)

  1. (transitive) To place in a cache.
  2. (transitive, computing) To store data in a cache.
Related terms
  • coagulate
  • cogent
  • squat
Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

cache (plural caches)

  1. Misspelling of cachet.

See also

  • cache-sexe

Anagrams

  • Chace, chace

Danish

Etymology

From English cache.

Noun

cache c (singular definite cachen, plural indefinite cacher)

  1. (computing) cache

Declension

Synonyms

  • buffer
  • cachehukommelse

Derived terms

  • cachehukommelse
  • cachememory

Further reading

  • “cache” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

From cacher. In the sense "cover, mask", a clipping of cache-œil, cache-nez, etc.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaʃ/

Noun

cache f (plural caches)

  1. cache, hiding place for later retrieval

Derived terms

  • cachette

Descendants

  • → English: cache (see there for further descendants)

Noun

cache m (plural caches)

  1. cover, mask
  2. (computing) cache

Verb

cache

  1. inflection of cacher:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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

Galician

Etymology 1

Unknown. Compare gache.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkɑt͡ʃɪ]

Interjection

cache!

  1. shoo! (said to pigs)
    Synonyms: gache, isca, xo

References

  • “cache” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “cache” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “cache” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Etymology 2

Verb

cache

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

German

Verb

cache

  1. inflection of cachen:
    1. first-person singular present
    2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
    3. singular imperative

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English cache.

Adjective

cache (invariable)

  1. (computing, relational) cache

Noun

cache f (invariable)

  1. (computing) cache

Further reading

  • cache in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

  • acché

Norman

Verb

cache

  1. first-person singular present indicative of cachi
  2. third-person singular present indicative of cachi
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of cachi
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of cachi
  5. second-person singular imperative of cachi

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English cache.

Noun

cache m (definite singular cachen, indefinite plural cacher, definite plural cachene)

  1. a cache (computing, geocaching)

References

  • “cache_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English cache.

Noun

cache m (definite singular cachen, indefinite plural cachar, definite plural cachane)

  1. a cache (computing, geocaching)

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English cache.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɛʂ/, /kaʂ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛʂ, -aʂ
  • Syllabification: cache
  • Homophones: karz, kasz, każ

Noun

cache m inan

  1. (computing) cache (fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium)
    Synonym: pamięć podręczna

Declension

Further reading

  • cache in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • cache in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • cache in PWN's encyclopedia

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English cache, from French cache (“hiding place”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

cache f (plural caches)

  1. (computing) cache (fast temporary storage for frequently used information)
    Synonym: memória cache

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ca‧che

Verb

cache

  1. inflection of cachar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
  2. inflection of cachir:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkat͡ʃe/ [ˈka.t͡ʃe]
  • Rhymes: -atʃe
  • Syllabification: ca‧che

Etymology 1

Verb

cache

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

Etymology 2

Unadapted borrowing from English cache.

Noun

cache m (plural caches)

  1. Alternative form of caché (“temporary storage”)
Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.


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