Latch is valid Scrabble Word

Is latch a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is latch valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

5 letters word
10 points in Scrabble
11 points in WWF

Definitions for LATCH in dictionary:

VERB:

to close a gate with a catch
fasten (a door or gate) with a latch
(of a device) become fixed in a particular state
To smear; to anoint.
fasten with a latch

NOUN:

a metal bar with a catch and lever used for fastening a door or gate
a spring lock for an outer door, which catches when the door is closed and can only be opened from the outside with a key.
the part of a knitting machine needle which closes or opens to hold or release the wool.
a circuit which retains whatever output state results from a momentary input signal until reset by another signal.
fastening for a door with a bar and lever

That which fastens or holds; a lace; a snare.
A movable piece which holds anything in place by entering a notch or cavity; specifically, the catch which holds a door or gate when closed, though it be not bolted.
A latching.
A crossbow.
To catch so as to hold.
To catch or fasten by means of a latch.
spring-loaded doorlock that can only be opened from the outside with a key
catch for fastening a door or gate; a bar that can be lowered or slid into a groove

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to close with a type of fastening device

Words related to LATCH

latched13 latches12 latching14

Words that contain LATCH

clatch13 klatch15 slatch11 latched13 latches12 latchet12 splatch14 unlatch12 clatched16 clatches15 klatches17 latchets13 latching14 latchkey20 potlatch15 slatches13 clatching17 latchkeys21 splatched17 splatches16 unlatched15 unlatches14 potlatched18 potlatches17 splatching18 unlatching16 latchstring17 potlatching19 throatlatch19 latchstrings18 throatlatches21

How to use LATCH in a sentence

It is the rattle of the latch, being slowly lifted.
I did not have the chance to continue, for a hand was trying the latch of the door, and then a sharp knock interrupted me.
When I had touched the latch I dropped it, and, coming back to the bed, held out my hand.
My heart was in my mouth when Ratsey lifted the latch and led me into the inn parlour.
Now when the latch clicked behind him, the Princess Sofia forgot that the simplicity of her success thus far was almost discouraging.
Maitre Pierre lifted the latch of the side door, and led the way into a large room, where arrangements had been made for a substantial breakfast.
Finding the key in the latch, we happily took the liberty of entering, and we found you lying motionless on the ground.
In the darkness he looked for, found, and lifted, the heavy latch.
It was deeply in shadow, but she did not need sight to find the latch string, which she had played with as a child, and in another instant she stood in the great dark room.
It was no good talking through a door, so I lifted the latch doubtfully and put in my head.

After knocking for some time at the door without effect, he tried the latch, and to his surprise found it open.
Ambrose merely lifted the latch and walked in with his five men at his heels.
As we looked, a hurried step came across the yard, a hand raised the latch of the door, and some one entered abruptly.
The ring is then erected to the position shown dotted at M, by moving the handle, H, downward to L and locking it there with the latch, Z.
Cautiously he made his way to the door, lifted the latch and gained the entry.
I have a friend who owns a cow that knows exactly how to lift an iron latch to the barn door with her tongue and open the door.
He lifted the latch of his house door for the last time, smoked his last pipe, and laid down willingly to sleep.
He passed an ash barrel and the odour of drying wood, hung cap and coat On a peg in the closet, lifted the latch of a pine door, and came into the schoolroom.
Great heavy clouds still hung above, and an icy blast caught her skirts as she lifted the latch of the gate and turned into the open.
Then he became calmer, returned home, entered the house with a latch key, and went to bed without waking any of the inmates.
I fitted to the latch My hand, with trembling care, Lest back the awful door should spring, And leave me standing there.
Where could he seek one more fitted to the purpose than his mother? The door of the house where she lodged was common to many, and therefore opened with a latch.
Then above her Hubbard knocked upon a door, a latch clicked as the door was opened, a hollow jarring sound followed as the door was sharply closed.
The boy, still leading, ran down the sloping path to the door, and lifted the latch.
It was Parson Chichester who claimed afterwards that he won by a short length, and lifting the latch, pushed the door open.
The dusk was confusing, and he stood still after the first step, hearing the latch click behind him.
A latch key was impatiently inserted in the hall door.
I was peering westward towards the rolling obscurity of hills and woods that were just beginning to bulk out of the gloom, when I heard the click of the door latch.
She crossed by the well and under the trees to the pretty new school on the other side, and lifted the latch of the dwelling without knocking.
Presently, as he stood facing the door, he saw the latch lifted.
She put on her shoes again, drew back the bolts softly, left the door upon the latch, and crept out into the street.
Madison could hear Helena fumbling with the door latch, and by the time she had succeeded in opening the door the retreating figure of Thornton was a safe distance away.
As he stepped back the latch clicked and the door was suddenly opened.
A string was now fastened to the latch and passed through a hole in the door.

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