Hotch is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.
You can make 25 anagrams from letters in hotch (chhot).
1350-1400; Middle English (north) hotchen; akin to Dutch hotsen to jolt, dialectal German hotzen to move up and down, French hocher to jog, shake (Old French hochier
Now here is a strange jumble and hotch potch of Matters, if you mind it.
The cheque had been returned in a letter from the 'hotch Potch,' couched in these words.
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