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Yes. The word pech is a Scrabble US word. The word pech is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word pech is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

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4-letter words (1 found)

PECH,

3-letter words (6 found)

CEP,CHE,ECH,HEP,PEC,PEH,

2-letter words (4 found)

CH,EH,HE,PE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

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

Definitions and meaning of pech

pech

English

Alternative forms

  • paich, pegh

Etymology

Borrowed from Scots pech, apparently of imitative origin.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pɛk/
  • (Scotland) IPA(key): /pɛx/
  • Rhymes: -ɛx, -ɛk

Verb

pech (third-person singular simple present pechs, present participle peching, simple past and past participle peched)

  1. (Scotland, Northern England) To pant, to struggle for breath.

Anagrams

  • EHCP, ceph, hep C

Breton

Noun

pech m (plural pechoù)

  1. trap, booby trap

Chuj

Noun

pech

  1. duck

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from German Pech.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpɛx]

Noun

pech m inan

  1. (colloquial) bad luck
    Synonym: smůla

Declension

Further reading

  • “pech”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • “pech”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

From German Pech (bad luck; pitch, tar), from Old High German peh, from Latin pīx. Doublet of inherited pek (pitch). Also cognate with English pitch.

The sense “breakdown” is a Dutch innovation. It is probably modelled on the word ongeluk, which means both “bad luck, misfortune” and “accident”. Since pech typically denotes a lesser kind of bad luck, it came to be used for a lesser kind of traffic accident too. German uses Panne instead; compare Dutch panne.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɛx/
  • Hyphenation: pech
  • Rhymes: -ɛx

Noun

pech m (uncountable)

  1. bad luck; misfortune
  2. breakdown, e.g. of a car

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Negerhollands: pech

Hungarian

Etymology

From German Pech.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpɛxː]
  • Hyphenation: pech
  • Rhymes: -ɛxː

Noun

pech (plural pechek)

  1. bad luck, misfortune
    Synonym: balszerencse
    Antonyms: szerencse, mázli

Declension

Derived terms

  • peches

References

Further reading

  • pech in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Pech. Doublet of pach.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɛx/
  • Rhymes: -ɛx
  • Syllabification: pech
  • Homophone: Pech

Noun

pech m animal

  1. (usually in the singular) bad luck, misfortune
    Synonyms: niefart, nieszczęście
    Antonyms: fart, szczęście

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

  • pech in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • pech in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Scots

Etymology

Imitative.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɛç/

Verb

pech (third-person singular simple present pechs, present participle pechin, simple past pecht, past participle pecht)

  1. to pant, gasp for breath

Source: wiktionary.org