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Is gauche a Scrabble word?

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

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Is gauche a Scrabble UK word?

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

G2A1U1C3H4E1

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Yes. The word gauche is a Words With Friends word. The word gauche is worth 14 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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6-letter words (1 found)

GAUCHE,

5-letter words (1 found)

GAUCH,

4-letter words (9 found)

ACHE,AGUE,AUGH,CAGE,CHUG,EACH,EUGH,GACH,HUGE,

3-letter words (19 found)

ACE,ACH,AGE,AUE,CAG,CHA,CHE,CUE,EAU,ECH,ECU,GAE,GAU,GUE,HAE,HAG,HUE,HUG,UGH,

2-letter words (11 found)

AE,AG,AH,CH,EA,EH,GU,HA,HE,UG,UH,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 42 words from gauche according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of gauche

gauche

Etymology

Borrowed from French gauche (“left, awkward”), from gauchir (“to veer, turn”), from Old French gaucher (“to trample, walk clumsily”), from Frankish *walkan (“to full, trample”), from Proto-Germanic *walkaną (“to full, roll up”). Akin to Old High German walchan (“to knead”), Old English wealcian (“to roll up, curl”) and English walk, Old Norse valka (“to drag about”). More at walk.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɡəʊʃ/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ɡoʊʃ/
    (chemistry sense only) IPA(key): /ɡaʊʃ/, /ɡoʊʃ/
  • Rhymes: -əʊʃ

Adjective

gauche (comparative more gauche, superlative most gauche)

  1. Awkward or lacking in social graces; bumbling.
  2. (mathematics, archaic) Skewed, not plane.
  3. (chemistry) Describing a torsion angle of 60°.

Synonyms

  • (lacking in social graces): graceless, tactless, unsophisticated, unpolished, gawky

Antonyms

  • (antonym(s) of "lacking in social graces"): adroit

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  • guache

French

Etymology

From gauchir (“warp, distort”), a conflation of Old French gauchier (“tread”) (from Frankish *walkijan, *walkan, cognate with English walk) + Old French guenchir (“deviate”) (from Frankish *wenkijan (“to sway, falter”)). Gauche replaced the original word for "left", senestre, in the sixteenth century. Compare Walloon gåtche.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡoʃ/

Adjective

gauche (plural gauches)

  1. left
  2. awkward, gawky
  3. clumsy

Noun

gauche f (plural gauches)

  1. the left, the left-hand side

Noun

gauche m (plural gauches)

  1. (boxing) a left-hander, a southpaw

Antonyms

  • (antonym(s) of "left"): droite

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

gauche f (plural gauches)

  1. (Jersey) left

Source: wiktionary.org