pitch: meaning and words from its letters
5 letters · 12 letter points · starts with P · ends with H
Meaning of pitch
noun
- countable, uncountable
A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; tree sap.
Example: It is hard to get this pitch off my hand.
- countable, uncountable
A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; tree sap. Anything similar to or derived from tree sap: resin; rosin.
- countable, uncountable
A dark, extremely viscous material still remaining after distilling crude oil or natural tar.
Example: They put pitch on the mast to protect it.
- countable, uncountable
Pitchstone.
Listed forms: pitches.
Source: Wiktionary — pitch.
verb
To cover or smear with pitch.
To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
Listed forms: pitches, pitching, pitched.
Source: Wiktionary — pitch.
adj
Very dark black; pitch-black.
Intense, deep, dark.
Listed forms: pitcher, pitchest.
Source: Wiktionary — pitch.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for pitch.
noun
the act of throwing a baseball or softball by the pitcher towards home plate, which initiates play by giving the batter a chance to hit it
noun
promotion by means of an argument and demonstration
- sales talk
- sales pitch
noun
degree of deviation from a horizontal plane
noun
any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is pitch in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of pitch
P(3) + I(1) + T(1) + C(3) + H(4) = 12 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of pitch
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from pitch
19 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in pitch. Showing up to 24, longest first.