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Is lurch a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word lurch is a Scrabble US word. The word lurch is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

L1U1R1C3H4

Is lurch a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word lurch is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

L1U1R1C3H4

Is lurch a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word lurch is a Words With Friends word. The word lurch is worth 12 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

L2U2R1C4H3

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5-letter words (2 found)

CHURL,LURCH,

4-letter words (3 found)

CHUR,CURL,HURL,

3-letter words (4 found)

CRU,CUR,LUR,RUC,

2-letter words (3 found)

CH,UH,UR,

You can make 12 words from lurch according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of lurch

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Definitions and meaning of lurch

lurch

Pronunciation

  • (General American) enPR: lûrch, IPA(key): /lɝt͡ʃ/
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tʃ

Etymology 1

Originally a nautical term, possibly from French lâcher (“to let go”).

Noun

lurch (plural lurches)

  1. A sudden or unsteady movement.
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Verb

lurch (third-person singular simple present lurches, present participle lurching, simple past and past participle lurched)

  1. To make such a sudden, unsteady movement.
Translations

See also

  • leave someone in the lurch, left in the lurch
  • Lurch in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Etymology 2

From Latin lurcāre.

Verb

lurch (third-person singular simple present lurches, present participle lurching, simple past and past participle lurched)

  1. (obsolete) To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up.

Etymology 3

From Middle English *lurche (implied in derivative lurching), from Old French lourche (“deceived, embarrassed; also the name of a game”), from Proto-West Germanic *lort (“left; left-handed; crooked; bent; warped; underhanded; deceitful; limping”). Cognate to English lirt.

Noun

lurch (countable and uncountable, plural lurches)

  1. An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.
  2. A double score in cribbage for the winner when his/her adversary has not yet pegged his/her 31st hole.
    • August 14, 1784, Horace Walpole, letter to the Hon. H. S. Conway
      Lady Blandford has cried her eyes out on losing a lurch.

Verb

lurch (third-person singular simple present lurches, present participle lurching, simple past and past participle lurched)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To leave someone in the lurch; to cheat.
  2. (obsolete, intransitive) To rob.
  3. (obsolete, intransitive) To evade by stooping; to lurk.
  4. (transitive) To defeat in the game of cribbage with a lurch (double score as explained under noun entry).

References

  • Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “lurch”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

  • churl

Source: wiktionary.org