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say it: beech
beach is a noun and verb meaning "an area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake". It is pronounced /ˈbitʃ/ — beech. It carries 2 recorded senses.
an area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake
land on a beach
“the ship beached near the port”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for beach come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.