drench
/dɹɛnt͡ʃ/noun, verb
drench is spelled D-R-E-N-C-H: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 61,481st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, drench means “A dose or draught of liquid medicine administered to an animal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of drench is drenches.
How many letters and syllables are in drench?
| Letters | 6: D-R-E-N-C-H |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 |
| In writing | about once in every 4 million words; the 61,481st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is drench?
Drench appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 61,481st 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 drench?
- US /dɹɛnt͡ʃ/
- /dɹɪ̟nt͡ʃ/
Drench has one syllable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-drench.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with drench?
5 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as drench from its last stressed vowel (/ɛntʃ/):
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 drench
- drenches plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- drenching participle, present
- drenched participle, past, singular, he/she/it, plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does drench mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
archaicA dose or draught of liquid medicine (especially one causing sleepiness) taken by a person; specifically, a (large) dose, or one forced or poured down the throat.
- 2
A dose or draught of liquid medicine administered to an animal.
- 3
An act of making someone or something completely wet; a soak or soaking, a wetting.
- 4
An amount of water or some other liquid that will make someone or something completely wet.
verb
- 1
To cause (someone) to drink; to provide (someone) with a drink.
- 2
To administer a dose or draught of liquid medicine to (an animal), often by force.
- 3
To make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liquid fall or thrown on them or it; to saturate, to soak; also (archaic), to make (someone or something) completely wet by immersing in water or some other liquid; to soak, to steep.
- 4
obsoleteTo drown (someone).
- 5
obsoleteTo overwhelm (someone); to drown, to engulf.
- 6
obsoleteTo be drowned; also, to be immersed in water.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Drench in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense to make (someone or something) completely wet by having water or some other liqu:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does drench come from?
From Middle English drench, drenche (“beverage, drink; cup of drink, specifically a poisoned drink; medicinal potion, specifically an emetic (?)”) [and other forms], from Old English drenċ (“drink; draft, potion; dose (of medicine, poison, etc.)”), from Proto-West Germanic *dranki, from Proto-Germanic *drankiz (“drink; potion; dose”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrenǵ- (“to draw, pull; to gulp; to sip”). Doublet of drink (noun).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).