crotch

/kɹɑt͡ʃ/noun, verb

crotch is spelled C-R-O-T-C-H: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.9 times per million words in written English, the 20,356th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, crotch means “The ventral area (very bottom) of the human body between where the legs fork from the torso, in the area of the genitals and anus” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of crotch is crotches.

How many letters and syllables are in crotch?

Letters	6: C-R-O-T-C-H
Syllables	1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing	1.9 times per million words; the 20,356th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none measured in search
Rhymes with	notch scotch koch botch more

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is crotch?

Crotch appears 1.9 times per million words in written English, the 20,356th most frequent word form in the list.

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Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce crotch?

US /kɹɑt͡ʃ/
UK /kɹɒt͡ʃ/

Crotch has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-crotch.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with crotch?

6 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as crotch from its last stressed vowel (/ɑtʃ/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of crotch

crotches plural, present, singular, he/she/it
crotching participle, present
crotched participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does crotch mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

1
The ventral area (very bottom) of the human body between where the legs fork from the torso, in the area of the genitals and anus.
Every mile they rode their crotches felt worse saddlepain.
2
slangEither the male or female genitalia.
He cringed at being kicked in the crotch.
3
The area where something forks or branches: where a ramification takes place.
There is a child sitting in a crotch of that tree.
4
In the three-ball carom game, a small space at each corner of the table.
5
The open counter (negative space) formed by two downward strokes that meet at an internal acute angle, potentially above a vertex, as in the letters "V" and "Y".

verb

1
To provide with a crotch; to give the form of a crotch to.
to crotch the ends of ropes in splicing or tying knots
2
USTo notch (a log) on opposite sides to provide a grip for the dogs that will haul it.
3
To shoplift or smuggle by hiding between one's thighs or in one's underwear.
4
To hit in the crotch (genital region).
5
To secure (the boom) to the boom crotch (a forked pole).
6
To hang (a rope) over a crotch in a tree so that the ends hang down from opposite sides.
7
To remove overgrown wool from around the eyes of.