fetches
/ˈfɛt͡ʃɪz/
"fetches" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“fetches” is uncommon English (frequency #54,179 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,179
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - third-person singular simple present indicative of fetch
Corpus desk
Index EN-fetches · fetches · English
fetches · rank #54,179 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,179
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH FiOS
Nearest frequency peer: FiOS (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “fetches”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- feckless
feckless
45,826 corpus weight
- Fellowes
Fellowes
45,824 corpus weight
- fetches
fetches
45,822 corpus weight
- FiOS
FiOS
45,821 corpus weight
- flan
flan
45,820 corpus weight
- FMC
FMC
45,818 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “fetches” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fetches |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈfɛt͡ʃɪz/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,179 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “fetches” in English
Rare enough to double-check
fetches is uncommon English at frequency #54,179 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /ˈfɛt͡ʃɪz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "third-person singular simple present indicative of fetch".
fetches doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is fetches, spelled F-E-T-C-H-E-S.
Definition
- 1third-person singular simple present indicative of fetch
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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