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Is glitch a Scrabble word?

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

G2L1I1T1C3H4

Is glitch a Scrabble UK word?

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

G2L1I1T1C3H4

Is glitch a Words With Friends word?

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

G3L2I1T1C4H3

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6-letter words (1 found)

GLITCH,

5-letter words (3 found)

GITCH,LICHT,LIGHT,

4-letter words (10 found)

CHIT,CLIT,GILT,GLIT,HILT,ITCH,LICH,LITH,THIG,TICH,

3-letter words (13 found)

CHI,CIG,CIT,GHI,GIT,HIC,HIT,ICH,LIG,LIT,TIC,TIG,TIL,

2-letter words (6 found)

CH,GI,HI,IT,LI,TI,

You can make 33 words from glitch according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of glitch

glitch

Etymology

Probably from Yiddish גליטש (glitsh), from German glitschig (“slippy”), from glitsch (“slide, glide, slip”) + -ig (“-y”). Related to gleiten (“glide”). Cognate with French glisser (“to slip, to slide, to skid”).

Popularized 1960s, by US space program. Attested 1962 by American astronaut John Glenn, in reference to spikes in electrical current.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡlɪt͡ʃ/
  • Rhymes: -ɪtʃ

Noun

glitch (countable and uncountable, plural glitches)

  1. (countable) A problem affecting function.
    Synonyms: bug, hitch, imperfection, quirk, gremlin
  2. (countable, informal, engineering) An unexpected behavior in an electrical signal, especially if the signal spontaneously returns to expected behavior after a period of time.
    Coordinate terms: surge, spike, instability
  3. (video games) A bug or an exploit.
  4. (uncountable, music) A genre of experimental electronic music since the 1990s, characterized by a deliberate use of sonic artifacts that would normally be viewed as unwanted noise.
    Hypernym: electronic music
    Hyponym: glitchcore
    Coordinate term: noise
  5. (astronomy, countable) A sudden increase in the rotational frequency of a pulsar.

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Verb

glitch (third-person singular simple present glitches, present participle glitching, simple past and past participle glitched)

  1. (intransitive, especially of machines) To experience an unexpected, typically intermittent malfunction.
  2. (intransitive, video games) To perform an exploit or recreate a bug while playing a video game.

References

Further reading

  • glitch on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • glitch (music) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Source: wiktionary.org