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Is cloche a Scrabble word?

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

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Is cloche a Scrabble UK word?

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

C3L1O1C3H4E1

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6-letter words (1 found)

CLOCHE,

5-letter words (1 found)

LOCHE,

4-letter words (10 found)

CHOC,COCH,COLE,ECCO,ECHO,HELO,HOLE,LECH,LOCH,OCHE,

3-letter words (9 found)

CEL,CHE,COL,ECH,ECO,HOC,HOE,OCH,OLE,

2-letter words (8 found)

CH,EH,EL,HE,HO,LO,OE,OH,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 30 words from cloche according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of cloche

cloche

Etymology

Borrowed from French cloche (“bell”), from Medieval Latin clocca (“bell”). Doublet of cloak and clock.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /klɒʃ/, /kloʊʃ/
  • Rhymes: -ɒʃ, -əʊʃ

Noun

cloche (plural cloches)

  1. A glass covering, originally bell-shaped, for garden plants to prevent frost damage and promote early growth.
  2. A bell-shaped, close-fitting women’s hat with a deep rounded crown and narrow rim.
    Synonym: cloche hat
  3. A tableware cover, often resembling a bell.
  4. (aviation, historical) An apparatus used in controlling certain aeroplanes, consisting principally of a steering column mounted with a universal joint at the base, which is bell-shaped and has attached to it the cables for controlling the wing-warping devices, elevator planes, etc.

Translations

Franco-Provençal

Noun

cloche f

  1. bell

French

Etymology

From Medieval Latin clocca, from Proto-Celtic *klokkos (see also Welsh cloch, Old Irish cloc), ultimately imitative. Related to Old English clucge, Low German Klock (“bell, clock”), German Glocke, Swedish klocka.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /klɔʃ/

Noun

cloche f (plural cloches)

  1. bell (metal apparatus used to produce sound)
  2. a glass covering, originally bell-shaped, for garden plants to prevent frost damage and promote early growth
  3. a bell-shaped, close-fitting women’s hat with a deep rounded crown and narrow rim
  4. a tableware cover, often resembling a bell
  5. (colloquial) a clumsy person, an oaf

Derived terms

  • cloche de plongée
  • déménager à la cloche de bois
  • sauvé par la cloche
  • se taper la cloche
  • son de cloche

Adjective

cloche (plural cloches)

  1. (colloquial) clumsy, stupid
    Synonyms: maladroit, lourdaud, empoté, manche

Derived terms

  • à cloche-pied

Verb

cloche

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

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English clutch.

Noun

cloche f (invariable)

  1. joystick
  2. gear lever (in a car)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French cloche (“bell”).

Noun

cloche f (invariable)

  1. cloche hat

Middle English

Noun

cloche

  1. Alternative form of cloke (“claw”)

Middle French

Etymology

Medieval Latin clocca

Noun

cloche f (plural cloches)

  1. bell (metal apparatus used to produce sound)

Old French

Etymology

Medieval Latin clocca, probably from Celtic, compare Old Irish clocc, Welsh cloch, Manx clagg, all from Proto-Celtic *klokkos; ultimately imitative.

Noun

cloche oblique singular, f (oblique plural cloches, nominative singular cloche, nominative plural cloches)

  1. bell (metal apparatus used to produce sound)

Spanish

Alternative forms

  • cloch, clutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English clutch.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈklot͡ʃe/ [ˈklo.t͡ʃe]
  • Rhymes: -otʃe
  • Syllabification: clo‧che

Noun

cloche m (plural cloches)

  1. clutch
    Synonym: embrague

Further reading

  • “cloche”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Source: wiktionary.org