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Is ketch a Scrabble word?

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

K5E1T1C3H4

Is ketch a Scrabble UK word?

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

K5E1T1C3H4

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

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5-letter words (1 found)

KETCH,

4-letter words (5 found)

ECHT,ETCH,HECK,KHET,TECH,

3-letter words (7 found)

CHE,ECH,ETH,HET,KET,TEC,THE,

2-letter words (5 found)

CH,EH,ET,HE,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 19 words from ketch according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of ketch

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Definitions and meaning of ketch

ketch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɛt͡ʃ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛtʃ

Etymology 1

From Middle English catche, from cacchen (“to catch”). For the modern form with /ɛ/, compare the pronunciation /kɛtʃ/ of catch.

Noun

ketch (plural ketches)

  1. A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen being stepped forward of the rudder post.
Derived terms
  • bomb ketch
Descendants
  • → Dutch: kits
Translations
See also
  • yawl
Further reading
  • ketch on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

See catch.

Verb

ketch (third-person singular simple present ketches, present participle ketching, simple past and past participle ketched)

  1. Pronunciation spelling of catch.
    • 1929, H. W. ODUM, in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973), page 184
      If so you gonna ketch hell.
    • 1968 S. STUCKEY, in A. Chapman, New Black Voices (1972), page 445
      Run, nigger, run, de patrollers will ketch you.

Etymology 3

From Jack Ketch, a hangman of the 17th century.

Verb

ketch (third-person singular simple present ketches, present participle ketching, simple past and past participle ketched)

  1. (rare) To hang.
    • 1681, T. FLATMAN Heraclitus Ridens No. 14
      'Squire Ketch rejoices as much to hear of a new Vox, as an old Sexton does to hear of a new Delight.
    • n.d., Ibid;;. No. 18
      Well! If he has a mind to be Ketch'd, speed him say I.
    • 1859, MATSELL Vocab. s.v. (Farmer),
      I'll ketch you; I'll hang you.

Noun

ketch (plural ketches)

  1. A hangman.

French

Noun

ketch m (plural ketchs)

  1. ketch (boat)

Further reading

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

Source: wiktionary.org