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Is hatch a Scrabble word?

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

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Is hatch a Scrabble UK word?

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

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5-letter words (1 found)

HATCH,

4-letter words (3 found)

CHAT,HATH,TACH,

3-letter words (6 found)

ACH,ACT,CAT,CHA,HAH,HAT,

2-letter words (5 found)

AH,AT,CH,HA,TA,

You can make 15 words from hatch according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of hatch

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Definitions and meaning of hatch

hatch

Pronunciation

  • enPR: hăch, IPA(key): /hæt͡ʃ/
  • Hyphenation: hatch
  • Rhymes: -ætʃ

Etymology 1

From Middle English hacche, hache, from Old English hæċ, from Proto-West Germanic *hakkju (compare Dutch hek ‘gate, railing’, Low German Heck ‘pasture gate, farmyard gate’), variant of *haggju ‘hedge’. More at hedge.

Noun

hatch (plural hatches)

  1. A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.
  2. A trapdoor.
  3. An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through.
  4. A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided for access for maintenance.
  5. (nautical) An opening through the deck of a ship or submarine
  6. (slang) A gullet.
  7. A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
  8. A floodgate; a sluice gate.
  9. (Scotland) A bedstead.
  10. (mining) An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
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Verb

hatch (third-person singular simple present hatches, present participle hatching, simple past and past participle hatched)

  1. (transitive) To close with a hatch or hatches.

Etymology 2

From Middle English hacche, hacchen (“to propagate”), from Old English *hæċċan, āhaċċian (“to peck out; hatch”), from Proto-Germanic *hakjaną.

Cognate with German hecken ‘to breed, spawn’, Danish hække (“to hatch”), Swedish häcka (“to breed”); akin to Latvian kakale ‘penis’.

Verb

hatch (third-person singular simple present hatches, present participle hatching, simple past and past participle hatched)

  1. (intransitive, of young animals) To emerge from an egg.
  2. (intransitive, of eggs) To break open when a young animal emerges from it.
  3. (transitive) To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.
  4. (transitive) To devise (a plot or scheme).
Derived terms
  • hatcher, hatchling
  • hatch out
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Noun

hatch (plural hatches)

  1. The act of hatching.
  2. (figurative) Development; disclosure; discovery.
  3. (poultry) A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time.
  5. (often as mayfly hatch) The phenomenon, lasting 1–2 days, of large clouds of mayflies appearing in one location to mate, having reached maturity.
    • a. 1947, Edward R. Hewitt, quoted in 1947, Charles K. Fox, Redistribution of the Green Drake, 1997, Norm Shires, Jim Gilford (editors), Limestone Legends, page 104,
      The Willowemoc above Livington Manor had the largest mayfly hatch I ever knew about fifty years ago.
  6. (informal) A birth, the birth records (in the newspaper).
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Etymology 3

From Middle French hacher (“to chop, slice up, incise with fine lines”), from Old French hacher, hachier, from Frankish *hakōn, *hakkōn, from Proto-Germanic *hakkōną (“to chop; hack”). More at hack.

Verb

hatch (third-person singular simple present hatches, present participle hatching, simple past and past participle hatched)

  1. (transitive) To shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (cross-hatch).
  2. (transitive, obsolete) To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.
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See also

  • Colney Hatch
  • Hatch End

Further reading

  • Hatch in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

  • Thach, tchah

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