despatch
/dɪˈspæt͡ʃ/noun, verb
despatch is spelled D-E-S-P-A-T-C-H: 8 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 42,145th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “despatch vs dispatch” about 320 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, despatch means “Alternative form of dispatch” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of despatch is despatches.
How many letters and syllables are in despatch?
| Letters | 8: D-E-S-P-A-T-C-H |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 42,145th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is despatch?
Despatch appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 42,145th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce despatch?
- UK /dɪˈspætʃ/
- Australia /dəˈspætʃ/
- US /dɪˈspæt͡ʃ/
Despatch has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-dispatch.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with despatch
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: dispatch.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with despatch?
4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as despatch from its last stressed vowel (/ætʃ/):
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 despatch
- despatches plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- despatching participle, present
- despatched participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does despatch mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Alternative form of dispatch.
verb
- 1
Alternative form of dispatch.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).