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Is flitch a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word flitch is a Scrabble US word. The word flitch is worth 14 points in Scrabble:

F4L1I1T1C3H4

Is flitch a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word flitch is a Scrabble UK word and has 14 points:

F4L1I1T1C3H4

Is flitch a Words With Friends word?

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

F4L2I1T1C4H3

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6-letter words (1 found)

FLITCH,

5-letter words (5 found)

CLIFT,FILCH,FILTH,FITCH,LICHT,

4-letter words (10 found)

CHIT,CLIT,FLIC,FLIT,HILT,ITCH,LICH,LIFT,LITH,TICH,

3-letter words (10 found)

CHI,CIT,FIL,FIT,HIC,HIT,ICH,LIT,TIC,TIL,

2-letter words (6 found)

CH,HI,IF,IT,LI,TI,

You can make 32 words from flitch according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of flitch

flitch

Etymology

From Middle English flicche, from Old English fliċċe (“side of an animal, flitch”), from Proto-Germanic *flikkiją (“side, flitch”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁ḱ- (“to tear, peel off”). Cognate with Low German flikke, French flèche, Icelandic flikki (“flitch”), Middle Low German vlicke.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /flɪtʃ/
  • Rhymes: -ɪtʃ

Noun

flitch (plural flitches)

  1. The flank or side of an animal, now almost exclusively a pig when cured and salted; a side of bacon.
  2. A piece or strip cut off of something else, generally a piece of wood (timber).

Derived terms

  • Dunmow flitch

Translations

Verb

flitch (third-person singular simple present flitches, present participle flitching, simple past and past participle flitched)

  1. (transitive) To cut into, or off in, flitches or strips.
    to flitch logs
    to flitch bacon

References

  • Shipley, Joseph Twadell (2009): The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots
  • Scherer, Philip (1941): Germanic-Balto-Slavic Etyma, Issues 26-34, p. 29

Source: wiktionary.org