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

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5-letter words (1 found)

PERCH,

4-letter words (3 found)

CHER,PECH,PERC,

3-letter words (12 found)

CEP,CHE,ECH,HEP,HER,PEC,PEH,PER,PRE,REC,REH,REP,

2-letter words (6 found)

CH,EH,ER,HE,PE,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 23 words from perch according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of perch

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Definitions and meaning of perch

perch

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /pɜːtʃ/
  • (US) IPA(key): /pɝt͡ʃ/
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tʃ

Etymology 1

From Middle English perche, from Old French perche, from Latin perca, from Ancient Greek πέρκη (pérkē, “perch”), cognate with περκνός (perknós, “dark-spotted”).

Noun

perch (plural perches or perch)

  1. Any of the three species of spiny-finned freshwater fish in the genus Perca.
  2. Any of the about 200 related species of fish in the taxonomic family Percidae, especially:
    1. (South Africa) Acanthopagrus berda
    2. (Ghana) Distichodus engycephalus, Distichodus rostratus
    3. (Australia) Johnius belangerii, Macquaria ambigua, Macquaria colonorum, Macquaria novemaculeata, Nemadactylus macropterus
    4. (US) Kyphosus azureus
    5. (UK) Lateolabrax japonicus, Tautogolabrus adspersus
  3. Several similar species in the order Perciformes, such as the grouper.
Hyponyms
  • (fish in genus Perca): Balkhash perch, European perch, yellow perch
  • (fish in family Percidae): darter, pike-perch, zander
  • (fish in order Perciformes): bass
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Etymology 2

From Middle English perche, from Old French perche, from Latin pertica (“staff”, “long pole”, “measuring rod”).

Noun

perch (plural perches or perch)

  1. A rod, staff, tree branch, ledge, etc., used as a roost by a bird.
  2. A pole connecting the fore gear and hind gear of a spring carriage; a reach.
  3. (figuratively) A position that is secure and advantageous, especially one which is prominent or elevated.
  4. (figuratively) A position that is overly elevated or haughty.
  5. (dated) A linear measure of 5+1⁄2 yards, equal to a rod, a pole or 1⁄4 chain; the related square measure.
  6. A cubic measure of stonework equal to 16.6 × 1.5 × 1 feet.
  7. (textiles) A frame used to examine cloth.
  8. A bar used to support a candle, especially in a church.
  9. (theater) A platform for lights to be directed at the stage.
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Verb

perch (third-person singular simple present perches, present participle perching, simple past and past participle perched)

  1. (intransitive) To rest on a perch (especially, of a bird); to roost.
  2. (intransitive) To sit upon the edge of something.
  3. (intransitive) To stay in an elevated position.
  4. (transitive) To place something on (or as if on) a perch.
  5. (transitive, intransitive, textiles) To inspect cloth using a perch.
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References

  • “perch”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • “perch”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Middle English

Noun

perch

  1. Alternative form of perche (“pole”)

Source: wiktionary.org