fetch

/fɛt͡ʃ/verb, noun, interjection

fetch is spelled F-E-T-C-H: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 4.5 times per million words in written English, the 12,045th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, fetch means “To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in fetch?

Letters	5: F-E-T-C-H
Syllables	1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing	4.5 times per million words; the 12,045th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none measured in search
Rhymes with	sketch kvetch

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 fetch?

Fetch appears 4.5 times per million words in written English, the 12,045th most frequent word form in the list.

fetch0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

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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 fetch?

US /fɛt͡ʃ/
/fɑt͡ʃ/

Fetch 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-I_learned_some_phrases-fetch.wav, En-us-fetch.ogg, En-au-fetch.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with fetch?

2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as fetch from its last stressed vowel (/ɛtʃ/):

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 fetch

fetches present, singular, he/she/it, plural
fetching participle, present
fetched participle, past
fatch
fotch

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

What does fetch mean?

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

verb

1
To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get.
You have to fetch some sugar in order to proceed with the recipe.
2
To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
If you put some new tyres on it, and clean it up a bit, the car should fetch about $5,000
3
To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
to fetch headway or sternway
4
To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.
5
rareTo take (a breath); to heave (a sigh).
6
To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
7
obsoleteTo recall from a swoon; to revive; sometimes with to.
to fetch a man to
8
To reduce; to throw.
The sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground.

noun

1
An act of fetching, of bringing something from a distance.
2
An act of fetching data.
a fetch from a cache
3
The object of fetching; the source of an attraction; a force, propensity, or quality which attracts.
4
An area over which wind is blowing (over water) and generating waves.
5
The length of such an area; the distance a wave can travel across a body of water (without obstruction).
6
A stratagem or trick; an artifice.
They used cunning fetches to swindle money out of the gullible.
7
A game played with a dog in which a person throws an object for the dog to retrieve.
8
The apparition of a living person; a person's double, the sight of which is supposedly a sign that they are fated to die soon, a doppelganger; a wraith (“a person's likeness seen just after their death; a ghost, a spectre”).

interjection

1
Minced oath for fuck.