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Yes. The word sketch is a Scrabble US word. The word sketch is worth 15 points in Scrabble:

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6-letter words (1 found)

SKETCH,

5-letter words (5 found)

CHEST,HECKS,KETCH,KHETS,TECHS,

4-letter words (17 found)

ECHT,ETCH,ETHS,HECK,HEST,HETS,KESH,KEST,KETS,KHET,SECH,SECT,SEKT,SHET,SKET,TECH,TECS,

3-letter words (15 found)

CHE,ECH,EHS,EST,ETH,HES,HET,KET,SEC,SET,SHE,TEC,TES,THE,TSK,

2-letter words (8 found)

CH,EH,ES,ET,HE,SH,ST,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 47 words from sketch according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of sketch

sketch

Alternative forms

  • scetch (archaic)

Etymology

From Dutch schets or German Skizze, from Italian schizzo, from Latin schedium, from Ancient Greek σχέδιος (skhédios, “made suddenly, off-hand”), from σχεδόν (skhedón, “near, nearby”), from ἔχω (ékhō, “I hold”). Compare scheme.

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US, Canada) IPA(key): /skɛt͡ʃ/
  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /sket͡ʃ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛtʃ

Verb

sketch (third-person singular simple present sketches, present participle sketching, simple past and past participle sketched)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To make a brief, basic drawing.
  2. (transitive) To describe briefly and with very few details.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

sketch (plural sketches)

  1. A rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not intended as a finished work, often consisting of a multitude of overlapping lines.
  2. A rough design, plan, or draft, as a rough draft of a book.
  3. A brief description of a person or account of an incident; a general presentation or outline.
    Synonyms: pen picture, pen portrait
  4. A brief, light, or unfinished dramatic, musical, or literary work or idea; especially a short, often humorous or satirical scene or play, frequently as part of a revue or variety show.
    Synonym: skit
    1. A brief musical composition or theme, especially for the piano.
    2. A brief, light, or informal literary composition, such as an essay or short story.
  5. (informal) An amusing person.
  6. (slang, Ireland) A lookout; vigilant watch for something.
  7. (UK) A humorous newspaper article summarizing political events, making heavy use of metaphor, paraphrase and caricature.
  8. (category theory) A formal specification of a mathematical structure or a data type described in terms of a graph and diagrams (and cones (and cocones)) on it. It can be implemented by means of “models”, which are functors which are graph homomorphisms from the formal specification to categories such that the diagrams become commutative, the cones become limiting (i.e., products), the cocones become colimiting (i.e., sums).

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → German: Sketch
  • → Italian: sketch
  • → Portuguese: esquete (Brasilian), sketch (European)
  • → Turkish: skeç

Translations

Adjective

sketch (comparative more sketch, superlative most sketch)

  1. (informal) Sketchy, shady, questionable.

Further reading

  • sketch on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English sketch, from Dutch schets.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /skɛtʃ/
  • Hyphenation: sketch

Noun

sketch m (plural sketches, diminutive sketchje n)

  1. sketch, skit (short comic work)

Derived terms

  • cabaretsketch

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English sketch.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /skɛtʃ/

Noun

sketch m (plural sketchs)

  1. sketch, skit (short comic work)

Further reading

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

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English sketch from Dutch schets, from Italian schizzo, from Latin schedium, from Ancient Greek σχέδιος (skhédios, “made suddenly, off-hand”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

sketch m (invariable)

  1. sketch, skit (short comic work)

References

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English sketch.

Noun

sketch m (plural sketches)

  1. Alternative form of esquete
    Synonym: rábula

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English sketch.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsket͡ʃ/ [ˈsket͡ʃ], /esˈket͡ʃ/ [esˈket͡ʃ]
  • Rhymes: -etʃ

Noun

sketch m (plural sketches)

  1. skit; sketch (short comic work)

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

  • “sketch”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English sketch, from Dutch schets, from Italian schizzo. Doublet of skiss.

Noun

sketch c

  1. sketch, skit (short comic work)

Declension

See also

  • skiss

Further reading

  • sketch in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker

Source: wiktionary.org