Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

pleached

/plit͡ʃt/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.09 in modern English

Syllables: pleached
IPA: /plit͡ʃt/

16

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Entwined, intertwined, interwoven, plaited.

adj

Of a hedge, trees, etc.: created by interweaving branches.

verb

simple past and past participle of pleach

Example Sentences

"Would'ſt thou be window'd in great Rome, and ſee / Thy Maſter thus with pleacht Armes, bending downe / His corrigible necke, his face ſubdu'de / To penetratiue ſhame; [...]"
"[T]he prince and Count Claudio, walking in a thicke pleached alley in mine orchard, were thus much ouer-heard by a man of mine: [...]"
"I, in my pleached garden, watched the pomp."
"The garden ended in [...] pleached fruit trees."

Etymology

From pleach + -ed.

Word Breakdown

Root: *pleḱ-
Suffix: pleach

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /plit͡ʃt/
British English: /pliːtʃt/

Inflected Forms

more pleached (comparative) most pleached (superlative)

Derived Forms

unpleached

Phrases

self-pleached

Rhymes With

reached preached breached bleached beached unbleached beseeched leeched breeched be-breeched

Questions

How do you pronounce pleached?: The recorded pronunciation is /plit͡ʃt/.
What does pleached mean?: Entwined, intertwined, interwoven, plaited.
Where does pleached come from?: From pleach + -ed.

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