Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pitched

/pɪt͡ʃt/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.84 in modern English

Syllables: pitched
IPA: /pɪt͡ʃt/

15

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

simple past and past participle of pitch

adj

Having a slope, whether shallow, steep, or intermediate.

adj

Having a specified tonal range.

adj

Fought at a particular place and time, at which opposing forces anticipate and commit to fighting; (later especially) involving sustained, intense military (or by extension, political, legal etc.) fighting.

adj

Covered in pitch.

Example Sentences

"a pitched roof"
"The roofs up there are pitched heavier because of the snowfalls."
"If you look closely, you can see that this whole patio is pitched at a quarter-inch to the foot."
"a high-pitched scream"
"Carrados made his smiling admission and changed his position a fraction—possibly to catch her curiously pitched voice the better."
"a pitched battle"

Inflected Forms

more pitched (comparative) most pitched (superlative)

Derived Forms

unpitched

Phrases

fever-pitched high-pitched low-pitched pitched battle pitched market pitched roof

Rhymes With

switched enriched ditched stitched hitched bewitched twitched bitched glitched itched

Questions

How do you pronounce pitched?: The recorded pronunciation is /pɪt͡ʃt/.
What does pitched mean?: simple past and past participle of pitch

How to pronounce pitched

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