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Is scorch a Scrabble word?

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

S1C3O1R1C3H4

Is scorch a Scrabble UK word?

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

S1C3O1R1C3H4

Is scorch a Words With Friends word?

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

S1C4O1R1C4H3

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6-letter words (1 found)

SCORCH,

5-letter words (2 found)

CHOCS,CROCS,

4-letter words (10 found)

CHOC,COCH,CORS,COSH,CROC,HORS,ORCS,RHOS,ROCH,ROCS,

3-letter words (13 found)

COR,COS,HOC,HOS,OCH,OHS,ORC,ORS,RHO,ROC,SHO,SOC,SOH,

2-letter words (7 found)

CH,HO,OH,OR,OS,SH,SO,

You can make 33 words from scorch according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of scorch

scorch

Etymology

From Middle English scorchen, scorcnen (“to make dry; parch”), perhaps an alteration of earlier *scorpnen, from Old Norse skorpna (“to shrivel up”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /skɔːtʃ/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /skɔɹt͡ʃ/
  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tʃ

Noun

scorch (countable and uncountable, plural scorches)

  1. A slight or surface burn.
  2. A discolouration caused by heat.
  3. (phytopathology) Brown discoloration on the leaves of plants caused by heat, lack of water or by fungi.

Synonyms

  • (slight burn): singe

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Verb

scorch (third-person singular simple present scorches, present participle scorching, simple past and past participle scorched)

  1. (transitive) To burn the surface of something so as to discolour it
  2. (transitive) To wither, parch or destroy something by heat or fire, especially to make land or buildings unusable to an enemy
  3. (ergative) (To cause) to become scorched or singed
  4. (intransitive) To move at high speed (so as to leave scorch marks on the ground, physically or figuratively).
  5. To burn; to destroy by, or as by, fire.
  6. (transitive) To attack with bitter sarcasm or virulence.
  7. (intransitive, colloquial, dated) To ride a bicycle furiously on a public highway.

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See also

  • livid

References


Source: wiktionary.org