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Is tech a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word tech is a Scrabble US word. The word tech is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Is tech a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word tech is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

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Is tech a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word tech is a Words With Friends word. The word tech is worth 9 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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Valid words made from Tech

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4-letter words (3 found)

ECHT,ETCH,TECH,

3-letter words (6 found)

CHE,ECH,ETH,HET,TEC,THE,

2-letter words (5 found)

CH,EH,ET,HE,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 15 words from tech according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of tech

tech

English

Etymology

Clipping of technology, technician, and technique.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɛk/, [tʰɛk]
  • Rhymes: -ɛk
  • Homophone: TEK

Noun

tech (countable and uncountable, plural techs)

  1. (informal) Technology.
    1. Denotes technology businesses or the technology industry, especially in the field of computing and the Internet.
  2. (informal) Technician; technologist.
    Hyponyms: lab tech, surg tech
  3. (informal) Technique.
  4. (informal, used in titles) Technical college; technical school.
  5. (informal) Clipping of technical rehearsal.

Derived terms

Related terms

  • technology
  • technological

Verb

tech (third-person singular simple present techs, present participle teching, simple past and past participle teched)

  1. (video games) To perform a technical (a special move in fighting games that cancels out an opposing attack).

Anagrams

  • Chet, chet, echt, etch, hect-

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English tech; superficially a clipping of technologie, which is also reflected in the pronunciation.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɛx/, /tɛk/

Noun

tech m (uncountable)

  1. tech (technology), particularly high-tech or digital technology

Derived terms

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Old Irish

Alternative forms

  • teg

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *tegos, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tégos (cover, roof), from *(s)teg- (to cover); cognate with Ancient Greek τέγος (tégos).

The -ch is analogical to other nouns and adjectives where final non-palatal -ch alternates with palatal -ig.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tʲex/

Noun

tech n (genitive tige or taige, nominative plural tige or taige)

  1. house
    Synonyms: atrab, dom, lann, tegdais, treb

Declension

Derived terms

  • tech screptra
  • tech sét
  • teglach

Descendants

  • Irish: teach
  • Manx: çhagh, thie
  • Scottish Gaelic: taigh
  • Middle Irish: tech midchuarta
  • Middle Irish: tech n-óil
  • Middle Irish: tech talman
  • Classical Gaelic: teach othuir

Mutation

Further reading

  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “tech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Source: wiktionary.org