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say it: breech
breach is a noun and verb meaning "a failure to perform some promised act or obligation". It carries 5 recorded senses.
a failure to perform some promised act or obligation
an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification)
a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
“they hoped to avoid a break in relations”
act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
“offend all laws of humanity”
“violate the basic laws or human civilization”
“break a law”
“break a promise”
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 breach 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.