filching
noun, verb
filching is a noun meaning “The act of one who filches; theft” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-L-C-H-I-N-G, and it appears about once in every 46 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of filching is filchings.
What does filching mean?
noun
- 1
The act of one who filches; theft.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of filch
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of filching
- filchings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is filching?
Filching appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th 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).
Where does filching come from?
From filch + -ing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).