Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

blatch

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.84 in modern English

Syllables
blatch
IPA
13
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Blacking, blackening.

Obsolete; Uncountable

verb

To blacken; to smear with blacking; to stain or mark with soot or coal.

Archaic; Transitive verb

Etymology

From Middle English blacche (“black pigment or dye; black colour; black individual”), from Old English blæċċe (“black matter”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: blacche, blæċċe, blacchen

Usage

Inflected Forms

blatches (present, singular) blatching (participle, present) blatched (participle, past) blatched (past)

Frequently Paired Words

bletch

Questions

What does blatch mean?
Blacking, blackening.
Where does blatch come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

How to pronounce blatch

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