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C3H4E1

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Yes. The word che is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

C3H4E1

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3 letters words from 'che'

CHE 8ECH 8

2 letters words from 'che'

CH 7EH 5
HE 5 

All 3 letters words made out of che

che hce ceh ech hec ehc

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word che. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in che.

Definitions and meaning of che

che

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Russian че (če).

Noun

che (plural ches)

  1. The letter Ч, ч.
Translations

Etymology 2

A modification of ich, iche from Middle English ich (“I”, pronoun). Doublet of utchy.

Pronoun

che

  1. (personal, obsolete) I.

Anagrams

  • ECH, EHC

Aromanian

Etymology

From Latin quod. Compare Romanian că.

Conjunction

che

  1. Alternative form of cã

Atong (India)

Etymology

From Hindi छः (chaḥ).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ɕe/

Numeral

che (Bengali script চে)

  1. six

Synonyms

  • korok
  • siks / sik

References

  • van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary. Stated in Appendix 3.

Esperanto

Preposition

che

  1. H-system spelling of ĉe

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese che (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria); from an inflected form of Latin tū: the accusative te is from Latin tē, the dative ti from tibi, the dative che emerged by metanalysis from the contraction of te and the article.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃe/

Pronoun

che

  1. dative of ti

Usage notes

The personal pronoun can also be used as a "dative of solidarity" or "interesse" in colloquial register, meaning that either the interlocutor or the emissor is inserted into the action even when they don't have a direct intervention, so either to gain the interlocutor sympathy of to show personal interest:

    • c1295, R. Lorenzo (ed.), La traducción gallega de la Crónica General y de la Crónica de Castilla. Ourense: I. E. O. P. F., page 126:
      Disse entõ o conde a el rey dom Garçia: -Rey, nõ as por que teer nẽhũu destes que comigo som presos, que por mj̃ soo aueras quantos y som, et nõ lles faças nẽhũu mal, ca elles nõ che am y culpa nẽhũa.
      Then the count said to king Don García: «King, you don't have to keep as prisoners none of the ones that are with me, because just by me you'll find out how many they are, and don't yo do them any harm, because they are not to blame [to you] on this»
    • 1596, anonymous, Diálogo de Alberte e Bieito:
      eche cousa de chorar
      It is [to you] a thing for crying

References

  • “che” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
  • “che” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • “che” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
  • “che” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “che” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Guaraní

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃe/

Pronoun

che

  1. I, me

See also

Determiner

che

  1. my
    che angirũ — "my friend"

Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto ĉe, from French chez.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃe/, /t͡ʃɛ/

Preposition

che

  1. at, in, to (someone in his or her house, home or place), with (a people, in respect of their customs)

Istriot

Etymology

From Latin quod.

Conjunction

che

  1. that
    • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 68:
      Nu’ iè truvato spada, che me talgia
      I have not found a sword that would cut me

Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin quid, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷid, compare *kʷis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈke/
  • Hyphenation: che
  • Rhymes: -e

Pronoun

che

  1. (interrogative) what; which
    Synonyms: cosa, che cosa
  2. (relative) who; whom; which; nominative and accusative case
    Synonym: il quale
See also
  • cui (relative; dative and prepositional case)

Etymology 2

From Latin quod, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷod.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ke/ (unstressed)
  • Hyphenation: che
  • Rhymes: -e

Conjunction

che

  1. that
  2. than
  3. when
  4. let, may

Determiner

che (invariable)

  1. some (a remarkable); what (intensifier to begin a sentence)

References

Japanese

Romanization

che

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ちぇ
  2. Rōmaji transcription of チェ

Ladin

Conjunction

che

  1. that

Derived terms

  • coche

Lombard

Etymology

Akin to Italian che, from Latin quid.

Pronoun

che

  1. what

Mandarin

Romanization

che

  1. Nonstandard spelling of chē.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of chě.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of chè.

Usage notes

  • English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Middle English

Pronoun

che

  1. Alternative form of sche

Picard

Determiner

che m

  1. this

Romagnol

Conjunction

che

  1. that; which

Romansch

Etymology 1

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

Conjunction

che

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) that
Alternative forms
  • (Sutsilvan) ca, c'
  • (Surmiran) tgi
  • (Puter, Vallader) cha

Pronoun

che

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) who, whom
Alternative forms
  • (Sutsilvan) tge
  • (Surmiran) tgi
  • (Puter, Vallader) cha

Etymology 2

From Latin quid.

Pronoun

che

  1. (Puter, Vallader) what
Alternative forms
  • (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) tge
  • (Sursilvan) tgei

Etymology 3

From Latin quod.

Conjunction

che

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) than
Alternative forms
  • (Sutsilvan) ca
  • (Surmiran) tgi
  • (Puter) cu
  • (Vallader) co

South Slavey

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃʰɛ/

Noun

che

  1. Fort Liard form of tse

References

  • Keren Rice (1989) A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 11

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃe/, [ˈt͡ʃe]

Etymology 1

Noun

che f (plural ches)

  1. Name of the digraph Ch/ch, previously was considered a letter
Derived terms
  • che vaqueira

Etymology 2

Interjection

che

  1. (Argentine, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Valencia) hey
Descendants
  • Portuguese: tchê

Noun

che m or f (plural che)

  1. (Argentina, colloquial) dude; bro; man; mate
    • 1926, Roberto Arlt, "Los ladrones", in El juguete rabioso
      Lentamente giró la puerta en sus goznes. Lucio penetró a la habitación e hizo girar la llave del conmutador.
      —Pasen, che, les

presento mi bulín.

  1. (colloquial, Chile) Argentinian person

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [t͡ɕɛ˧˧]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [t͡ɕɛ˧˧]
  • (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [cɛ˧˧]

Verb

che • (枝, 𨑤, 𩂏, 𫑃)

  1. to cover; to take shelter
  2. (literally) to hide

Derived terms


Source: wiktionary.org
  • (dialect) I.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)