sitch
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.11 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
det
Pronunciation spelling of such.
Example Sentences
- "This is the boundary at Earnleie: First from Earesbrook and [qu. to] the short thorns, […] from the pit to Heortseges brook, along the brook to the mouth, and from the mouth to Byinnig-brook, and thence up along the brook to the sitch (i.e. runnel), and from the sitch to Sciteresford, and from the ford to Bromes Combe, […]"
- "So here's the sitch: Bruce Banner and Betty Ross Talbot are falling from roughly eight miles high."
- "Valeska had insisted 'she' stay, sleep where it was definitely safe. Just 'til the sitch could be settled."
- "Maybe one is more introspective and the other is more outgoing. Whatever the sitch, you two balance each other out."
- "Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Great, I'll see you back in there. Also, I wouldn't lose my mind if you decided to chew a stick of gum. Thanks for understanding the sitch, Gina, you're a china doll."
- "ETHAN: Nope, haven't seen him. But you should always call me when you need help, Mik. Especially when you're in a bad sitch. / MICHAELA: Well, I was in a bad "sitch," Ethan, but I was fine because I had Simone."
Etymology
From Middle English sich, siche, from Old English sīċ (“a watercourse; sike”), from Proto-West Germanic *sīk, from Proto-Germanic *sīką (“slow flowing water; a trickle”).