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Is smirch a Scrabble word?

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

S1M3I1R1C3H4

Is smirch a Scrabble UK word?

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

S1M3I1R1C3H4

Is smirch a Words With Friends word?

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

S1M4I1R1C4H3

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6-letter words (3 found)

CHIRMS,CHRISM,SMIRCH,

5-letter words (4 found)

CHIRM,CRIMS,MISCH,SCRIM,

4-letter words (15 found)

CHIS,CRIM,CRIS,HIMS,ICHS,MICH,MICS,MIRS,RICH,RIMS,SHIM,SHIR,SHRI,SICH,SMIR,

3-letter words (16 found)

CHI,CIS,HIC,HIM,HIS,ICH,ISH,ISM,MIC,MIR,MIS,RIM,SIC,SIM,SIR,SRI,

2-letter words (7 found)

CH,HI,HM,IS,MI,SH,SI,

You can make 45 words from smirch according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of smirch

smirch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /smɜː(ɹ)t͡ʃ/
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)tʃ

Etymology 1

From Middle English *smorchen ("to spatter, soil"; attested in besmorchid (“bespattered, soiled all over”)), of uncertain origin. Perhaps a derivative of Middle English smeoren, smuren, smeren (“to smear”) or related to Middle English smotry (“sooty, grimy”). Compare also Middle English bismotered (“bespattered, soiled”), Old French esmorcher (“to torture”), Middle English smoterly, smoterlich (“besmirched”), modern English smut.

Alternative forms

  • smurch (obsolete), smerch (obsolete)

Noun

smirch (countable and uncountable, plural smirches)

  1. (archaic) Dirt, or a stain.
  2. (figurative, archaic) A stain on somebody's reputation.
Translations

Verb

smirch (third-person singular simple present smirches, present participle smirching, simple past and past participle smirched)

  1. (transitive, archaic) To dirty; to make dirty.
    Synonyms: besmirch, soil
  2. (transitive, figurative, archaic) To harm the reputation of; to smear or slander.
    Synonym: besmirch
Derived terms
  • besmirch
Translations

References

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

Etymology 2

Meld of smear and chirp

Noun

smirch (plural smirches)

  1. (astronomy) A chirp of radiation power from an astronomical body that has a smeared appearance on its plot in the time-frequency plane (usually associated with massive bodies orbiting supermassive black holes)

Anagrams

  • chirms, chrism

Source: wiktionary.org