Pitch vs. Pich — Which is Correct Spelling?
By Tayyaba Rehman & Fiza Rafique — Updated on March 25, 2024
"Pitch" is correctly spelled with a "t", referring to either a throw, the level of sound, or a dark resin, while "pich" is an incorrect spelling.
Table of Contents
Which is correct: Pitch or Pich
How to spell Pitch?
Pitch
Correct Spelling
Pich
Incorrect Spelling
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Key Differences
Envision a baseball Pitcher who Throws, signifying the “T” in "pitch."
"Pitch" is as in the pitch of sound, where “T” indicates Tone.
Acknowledge common phrases like “sales pitch” and “pitch black” to remember the correct form.
Remember T for Throw, part of the correct spelling of "pitch."
"Pitch" contains the word "it," whereas "pich" does not.
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How Do You Spell Pich Correctly?
Incorrect: They decided to set up their tent on flat pich.
Correct: They decided to set up their tent on flat pitch.
Incorrect: The singer's perfect pich amazed the audience.
Correct: The singer's perfect pitch amazed the audience.
Incorrect: She could not hear the difference in pich between the two notes.
Correct: She could not hear the difference in pitch between the two notes.
Incorrect: He made a sales pich to the new clients.
Correct: He made a sales pitch to the new clients.
Incorrect: The quarterback made a quick pich to the running back.
Correct: The quarterback made a quick pitch to the running back.
Pitch Definitions
A throw or a tossed ball
She made a perfect pitch.
The degree of highness or lowness of a tone
He has a low pitch voice.
Thick, dark, sticky substance obtained from distilling tar
The roof was sealed with pitch.
To set up and fix firmly
They pitched their tents by the river.
The quality of a sound governed by the rate of vibrations producing it; the degree of highness or lowness of a tone
Her voice rose steadily in pitch
The steepness of a slope, especially of a roof.
A level of the intensity of something, especially a high level
The media furore reached such a pitch that the company withdrew the product
An area of ground marked out or used for play in an outdoor team game
A football pitch
A delivery of the ball by the pitcher.
A form of words used when trying to persuade someone to buy or accept something
He put over a very strong sales pitch
A place where a street vendor or performer stations themselves or sets up a stall
The traders had already reserved their pitches
A swaying or oscillation of a ship, aircraft, or vehicle around a horizontal axis perpendicular to the direction of motion
The pitch and roll of the ship
The distance between successive corresponding points or lines, for example between the teeth of a cogwheel.
A sticky resinous black or dark brown substance that is semi-liquid when hot and hardens when cold, obtained by distilling tar or turpentine and used for waterproofing.
Set (one's voice or a piece of music) at a particular pitch
You've pitched the melody very high
Throw roughly or casually
He crumpled the page up and pitched it into the fireplace
Throw (the ball) for the batter to try to hit.
Make a bid to obtain a contract or other business
I've been pitching for this account for over a month
Set up and fix in position
We pitched camp for the night
(of a moving ship, aircraft, or vehicle) rock or oscillate around a lateral axis, so that the front moves up and down
The little steamer pressed on, pitching gently
Cause (a roof) to slope downwards from the ridge
The roof was pitched at an angle of 75 degrees
Pave (a road) with stones
Another sort of stone is used for pitching streets
(in brewing) add yeast to (wort) to induce fermentation.
Cover, coat, or smear with pitch.
Any of various thick, dark, sticky substances obtained from the distillation residue of coal tar, wood tar, or petroleum and used for waterproofing, roofing, caulking, and paving.
Any of various natural bitumens, such as mineral pitch or asphalt.
A resin derived from the sap of various coniferous trees, as the pines.
The act or an instance of pitching.
A throw of the ball by the pitcher to the batter.
A ball so thrown
Hit the pitch into left field.
(Sports) A playing field. Also called wicket.
(Nautical) The alternate dip and rise of a vessel's bow and stern.
The alternate lift and descent of the nose and tail of an airplane.
A steep slope.
The degree of such a slope.
(Sports) A single interval between ledges or anchors used as belaying points in mountaineering
A climb of six pitches.
The angle of a roof.
The highest point of a structure
The pitch of an arch.
A level or degree, as of intensity
Worked at a feverish pitch.
(Acoustics) The distinctive quality of a sound, dependent primarily on the frequency of the sound waves produced by its source.
(Music) The relative position of a tone within a range of musical sounds, as determined by this quality.
(Music) Any of various standards for this quality associating each tone with a particular frequency.
The distance traveled by a machine screw in a single revolution.
The distance between two corresponding points on adjacent screw threads or gear teeth.
The distance between two corresponding points on a helix.
The distance that a propeller would travel in an ideal medium during one complete revolution, measured parallel to the shaft of the propeller.
A line of talk designed to persuade
"[his] pious pitch for ... austerity" (Boston Globe).
An advertisement.
Chiefly British The stand of a vendor or hawker.
(Games) See seven-up.
(Printing) The density of characters in a printed line, usually expressed as characters per inch.
To smear or cover with pitch.
To throw, usually with careful aim.
To discard by throwing
Pitched my worn-out sneakers.
To throw (the ball) from the mound to the batter.
To play (a game or part of a game) as pitcher.
To assign as pitcher
The manager decided to pitch a left-hander.
To erect or establish; set up
Pitched a tent.
Pitch camp.
To set firmly; implant; embed
Pitched stakes in the ground.
To set at a specified downward slant
Pitched the roof at a steep angle.
To set at a particular level, degree, or quality
Pitched her expectations too high.
(Music) To set the pitch or key of.
To adapt so as to be applicable; direct
Pitched his speech to the teenagers in the audience.
(Informal) To attempt to promote or sell, often in a high-pressure manner
"showed up on local TV to pitch their views" (Business Week).
(Sports) To hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with backspin so that it does not roll very far after striking the ground.
To lead (a card), thus establishing the trump suit.
To discard (a card other than a trump and different in suit from the card led).
To throw or toss something, such as a ball, horseshoe, or bale.
(Baseball) To play in the position of pitcher.
To plunge headlong
He pitched over the railing.
To stumble around; lurch.
To buck, as a horse.
(Nautical) To dip bow and stern alternately.
To oscillate about a lateral axis so that the nose lifts or descends in relation to the tail. Used of an aircraft.
To oscillate about a lateral axis that is both perpendicular to the longitudinal axis and horizontal to the earth. Used of a missile or spacecraft.
To slope downward
The hill pitches steeply.
To set up living quarters; encamp; settle.
(Sports) To hit a golf ball in a high arc with backspin so that it does not roll very far after striking the ground.
A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
It is hard to get this pitch off my hand.
A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
They put pitch on the mast to protect it.
The barrel was sealed with pitch.
It was pitch black because there was no moon.
(geology) Pitchstone.
A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
A good pitch in quoits
(baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
The pitch was low and inside.
The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby, gridiron or field hockey is played. cricket pitch.}} Not often used in the US or Canada, where "field" is the preferred word.
The teams met on the pitch.
(rare) The field of battle.
An effort to sell or promote something.
He gave me a sales pitch.
The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font.
The pitch of pixels on the point scale is 72 pixels per inch.
The pitch of this saw is perfect for that type of wood.
A helical scan with a pitch of zero is equivalent to constant z-axis scanning.
The angle at which an object sits.
The pitch of the roof or haystack
The rotation angle about the transverse axis.
The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down. Compare with roll, yaw, and heave.
The pitch of an aircraft
(aviation) A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
The propeller blades' pitch went to 90° as the engine was feathered.
An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
(by extension) The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public.
An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
The most thrust-out point of a headland or cape.
Collectively, the outermost points of some part of the body, especially the shoulders or hips.
The height a bird reaches in flight, especially a bird of prey preparing to swoop down on its prey.
A person's or animal's height.
Prominence; importance.
(climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
(caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
The entrance pitch requires 30 metres of rope.
(cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
A steep pitch in the road
The pitch of a roof
(mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
The pitch of middle "C" is familiar to many musicians.
(music) The standard to which a group of musical instruments are tuned or in which a piece is performed, usually by reference to the frequency to which the musical note A above middle C is tuned.
Are we in baroque pitch for this one?
(music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
Bob, our pitch, let out a clear middle "C" and our conductor gave the signal to start.
To cover or smear with pitch.
To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
(transitive) To throw.
He pitched the horseshoe.
To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
The hurler pitched a curveball.
He pitched high and inside.
To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
Bob pitches today.
(transitive) To throw away; discard.
He pitched the candy wrapper.
(transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
He pitched the idea for months with no takers.
(transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
At which level should I pitch my presentation?
(transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent).
Pitch the tent over there.
(intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternatively up and down.
The typhoon pitched the deck of the ship.
The airplane pitched.
To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
The only way to get on the green from here is to pitch the ball over the bunker.
To bounce on the playing surface.
The ball pitched well short of the batsman.
To settle and build up, without melting.
To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
(with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
(intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
To pitch from a precipice
The field pitches toward the east.
To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.
To set or fix.
To discard for some gain.
To attack, or position or assemble for attack.
(intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
(transitive) To fix or set the tone of.
A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc., to preserve them.
He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.
See Pitchstone.
A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand; as, a good pitch in quoits.
That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
A point or peak; the extreme point or degree of elevation or depression; hence, a limit or bound.
Driven headlong from the pitch of heaven, downInto this deep.
Enterprises of great pitch and moment.
To lowest pitch of abject fortune.
He lived when learning was at its highest pitch.
The exact pitch, or limits, where temperance ends.
Height; stature.
The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant; as, a steep pitch in the road; the pitch of a roof.
The relative acuteness or gravity of a tone, determined by the number of vibrations which produce it; the place of any tone upon a scale of high and low.
The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
The distance from center to center of any two adjacent teeth of gearing, measured on the pitch line; - called also circular pitch.
The distance between symmetrically arranged or corresponding parts of an armature, measured along a line, called the pitch line, drawn around its length. Sometimes half of this distance is called the pitch.
To cover over or smear with pitch.
Fig.: To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
The welkin pitched with sullen could.
To throw, generally with a definite aim or purpose; to cast; to hurl; to toss; as, to pitch quoits; to pitch hay; to pitch a ball.
To thrust or plant in the ground, as stakes or poles; hence, to fix firmly, as by means of poles; to establish; to arrange; as, to pitch a tent; to pitch a camp.
To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones, as an embankment or a roadway.
To fix or set the tone of; as, to pitch a tune.
To set or fix, as a price or value.
To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
To light; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
The tree whereon they [the bees] pitch.
To fix one's choise; - with on or upon.
Pitch upon the best course of life, and custom will render it the more easy.
To plunge or fall; esp., to fall forward; to decline or slope; as, to pitch from a precipice; the vessel pitches in a heavy sea; the field pitches toward the east.
The property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration
(baseball) the throwing of a baseball by a pitcher to a batter
A vendor's position (especially on the sidewalk);
He was employed to see that his paper's news pitches were not trespassed upon by rival vendors
Promotion by means of an argument and demonstration
Degree of deviation from a horizontal plane;
The roof had a steep pitch
Any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
A high approach shot in golf
An all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump
Abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance);
The pitching and tossing was quite exciting
The action or manner of throwing something;
His pitch fell short and his hat landed on the floor
Throw or toss with a light motion;
Flip me the beachball
Toss me newspaper
Move abruptly;
The ship suddenly lurched to the left
Fall or plunge forward;
She pitched over the railing of the balcony
Set to a certain pitch;
He pitched his voice very low
Sell or offer for sale from place to place
Be at an angle;
The terrain sloped down
Heel over;
The tower is tilting
The ceiling is slanting
Erect and fasten;
Pitch a tent
Throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball;
The pitcher delivered the ball
Hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin
Lead (a card) and establish the trump suit
Set the level or character of;
She pitched her speech to the teenagers in the audience
Pitch Meaning in a Sentence
Her voice had a high pitch that was easy to recognize.
The advertising team worked on the perfect sales pitch.
They found a perfect pitch for their picnic in the park.
He adjusted the pitch of the note to match the music.
The campaign's pitch appealed to a lot of voters.
The inventor made a pitch for his new product on the show.
The journalist made a pitch to write the lead story.
A good pitch can make or break a business deal.
He practiced his pitch in front of the mirror.
The sound's pitch can tell us how high or low it is.
A smooth pitch helped the team win the game.
The pitch of her scream startled everyone.
In cricket, the pitch is crucial for the game's play.
The choir director asked for a pitch pipe to start the song.
The pitch darkness of the cave was unsettling.
The graphic designer's pitch included a complete rebranding.
The pitch of the engine's hum changed as it gained speed.
The engineer measured the pitch of the spiral staircase.
They used pitch to seal the wooden boat.
Pitch Idioms & Phrases
Pitch perfect
Exactly right; perfect in every way.
Her performance was pitch perfect; she didn't miss a single note.
Sales pitch
A speech that tries to persuade someone to buy or do something.
The salesman's sales pitch was so convincing that I ended up buying the product.
At fever pitch
At a state of very high intensity.
Excitement was at fever pitch just before the concert started.
Pitch black
Extremely dark, without light.
It was pitch black outside, making it hard to see anything.
Pitch a fit
To show sudden annoyance or anger.
She pitched a fit when she found out her favorite show was canceled.
Make a pitch for
To attempt to persuade someone of the merits of something.
He made a pitch for his idea at the meeting.
Elevator pitch
A brief, persuasive speech used to spark interest in what your organization does.
You should always have your elevator pitch ready in case you bump into a potential investor.
Pitch in
To help out or contribute.
Everyone needs to pitch in if we're going to finish on time.
Pitch a tent
To erect a tent.
We found a nice spot by the lake to pitch our tent.
Pitch and toss
A game of chance played with a coin.
They played pitch and toss to decide who would go first.
Common Curiosities
Why is it called pitch?
The term "pitch" derives from Old English "pic," related to various uses involving fixing, throwing, or a black substance.
Which vowel is used before pitch?
Usage varies; no specific vowel is always used before “pitch”.
What is the pronunciation of pitch?
/pɪtʃ/
Which preposition is used with pitch?
"On" (e.g., on the pitch) is common.
Which article is used with pitch?
Both “a” and “the” can be used.
Is pitch a negative or positive word?
It's neutral.
What is the verb form of pitch?
"Pitch" itself is a verb.
What is the root word of pitch?
Old English "pic."
What is the singular form of pitch?
"Pitch."
Which conjunction is used with pitch?
Various conjunctions can be used, depending on the context.
Is pitch an adverb?
No.
Is pitch a countable noun?
Yes.
Is pitch a collective noun?
No.
Is the word pitch imperative?
No, but it can be used in an imperative sentence.
What is the plural form of pitch?
"Pitches."
What part of speech is pitch?
Noun and verb.
What is another term for pitch?
Toss (verb) or Tone (noun, related to sound).
What is a stressed syllable in pitch?
Not applicable as "pitch" has only one syllable.
Which determiner is used with pitch?
Determiners like "the" and "a" can be used.
How is pitch used in a sentence?
"He gave a high pitch scream."
Is pitch a noun or adjective?
"Pitch" is primarily a noun and can also be a verb.
Is pitch a vowel or consonant?
It is a word containing both vowels and consonants.
Is the pitch term a metaphor?
No, but it can be used in metaphorical expressions.
What is the opposite of pitch?
Catch (when "pitch" is used in a throwing context).
Is pitch an abstract noun?
No.
Is the word pitch a Gerund?
No, but “pitching” is.
Is the word “pitch” a Direct object or an Indirect object?
It can be either, depending on sentence construction.
How many syllables are in pitch?
One.
How do we divide pitch into syllables?
It is not divided as it's a one-syllable word.
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