hatch
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When hatch helps
Base Score
5
Before any board-specific bonus
Unique Letters
4
A C H T
Two-Letter Start
HA
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
CH
Check this pattern late
- 5 letters
- 4 unique letters
- HA start
- CH ending
- repeated letters
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- hatch is worth 5 points before any pangram bonus.
- It uses 4 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include a, c, h, t plus any remaining hive letters.
- Watch the repeated-letter pattern (H x2); those are easy points to miss when scanning quickly.
- The CH ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the HA start.
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Pronunciation
noun
A horizontal door in a floor or ceiling.
noun
A trapdoor.
noun
An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through.
"The cook passed the dishes through the serving hatch."
noun
A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided for access for maintenance.
noun
An opening through the deck of a ship or submarine
noun
A gullet.
noun
A frame or weir in a river, for catching fish.
noun
A floodgate; a sluice gate.
noun
A bedstead.
noun
An opening into, or in search of, a mine.
verb
To close with a hatch or hatches.
noun
The act of hatching.
noun
Development; disclosure; discovery.
noun
(poultry) A group of birds that emerged from eggs at a specified time.
"These pullets are from an April hatch."
noun
(often as mayfly hatch) The phenomenon, lasting 1–2 days, of large clouds of mayflies appearing in one location to mate, having reached maturity.
noun
A birth, the birth records (in the newspaper) — compare the phrase "hatched, matched, and dispatched."
verb
(of young animals) To emerge from an egg.
verb
(of eggs) To break open when a young animal emerges from it.
verb
To incubate eggs; to cause to hatch.
verb
To devise.
verb
To shade an area of (a drawing, diagram, etc.) with fine parallel lines, or with lines which cross each other (cross-hatch).
verb
To cross; to spot; to stain; to steep.
Related Words
Same Letters
- attach
- thatch
- catch
- chat
- tach