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Is speech a Scrabble word?

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

S1P3E1E1C3H4

Is speech a Scrabble UK word?

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

S1P3E1E1C3H4

Is speech a Words With Friends word?

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

S1P4E1E1C4H3

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6-letter words (2 found)

CHEEPS,SPEECH,

5-letter words (6 found)

CEPES,CHEEP,ECHES,PECHS,PHESE,SHEEP,

4-letter words (14 found)

CEES,CEPE,CEPS,ECHE,EECH,HEPS,HESP,PECH,PECS,PEES,PEHS,SECH,SEEP,SPEC,

3-letter words (14 found)

CEE,CEP,CHE,ECH,EHS,HEP,HES,PEC,PEE,PEH,PES,SEC,SEE,SHE,

2-letter words (7 found)

CH,EE,EH,ES,HE,PE,SH,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 44 words from speech according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of speech

speech

Alternative forms

  • speach (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English speche, from Old English spǣċ, sprǣċ (“speech, discourse, language”), from Proto-West Germanic *sprāku (“speech, language”), from Proto-Indo-European *spereg-, *spreg- (“to make a sound”). Cognate with Dutch spraak (“speech”), German Sprache (“language, speech”). More at speak.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈspiːt͡ʃ/
  • Rhymes: -iːtʃ

Noun

speech (countable and uncountable, plural speeches)

  1. (uncountable) The ability to speak; the faculty of uttering words or articulate sounds and vocalizations to communicate.
  2. (uncountable) The act of speaking, a certain style of it.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:speech
  4. (countable) A formal session of speaking, especially a long oral message given publicly by one person.
    Synonyms: address, allocution, monologue, oration, soliloquy
  5. (countable) A dialect, vernacular, or (dated) a language.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:language
  6. (uncountable) Language used orally, rather than in writing.
  7. (grammar) An utterance that is quoted; see direct speech, reported speech
  8. (uncountable) Public talk, news, gossip, rumour.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

  • speak

Translations

Verb

speech (third-person singular simple present speeches, present participle speeching, simple past and past participle speeched)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To make a speech; to harangue.

Derived terms

  • bespeech

Anagrams

  • cheeps

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English speech.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /spitʃ/

Noun

speech m (plural speechen or speeches, diminutive speechje n)

  1. speech, oration (oral monologic address of some length)
    redevoering (“toespraak”)

Derived terms

  • donderspeech
  • speechen
  • speechschrijver

Anagrams

  • scheep

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /spitʃ/

Noun

speech m (plural speechs)

  1. an informal speech
    Synonym: allocution

Further reading

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

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English speech.

Noun

speech n (plural speech-uri)

  1. speech

Declension


Source: wiktionary.org