farfetched
adjective
farfetched is an adjective meaning “Alternative form of far-fetched” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-R-F-E-T-C-H-E-D and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 5 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does farfetched mean?
adjective
- 1
Alternative form of far-fetched.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce farfetched?
Farfetched has 2 syllables (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).
Forms of farfetched
- more farfetched comparative
- most farfetched superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is farfetched?
Farfetched appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 68,248th 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).
Words people confuse with farfetched
Also written: far-fetched (one word or two).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).