Crouch
6 lettersverbcommonUpdated June 2026
Definition
To lower the body by bending the knees and folding the back, drawing oneself close to the ground.
“The sprinter would crouch at the starting blocks, coiled and ready for the gun.”
Pronunciation
IPA
/kraʊt͡ʃ/
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Wordle
Contains the OU vowel pair and ends in CH, no repeated letters and six distinct characters make it a clean Wordle guess
Scrabble
C(3) appears twice and H(4) closes the word, a strong tile combination for a 6-letter play with no wasted low-value letters
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