# fitch

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #20,636

## Definitions
1. A polecat, such as the European polecat (Mustela putorius), the striped polecat, steppe polecat, or black-footed polecat of America.
2. A skin of a polecat.

## Etymology
Shortening of fitchew, or directly borrowed from its antecedent, Middle Dutch vitsche (“polecat”). More at fitchew.

## Easily confused with
- **FTC** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fitch-vs-ftc)
- **fits** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fitch-vs-fits)
- **frith** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fitch-vs-frith)
- **flinch** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fitch-vs-flinch)
- **fit** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fit-vs-fitch)
- **fic** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fic-vs-fitch)
- **fish** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fish-vs-fitch)
- **fico** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fico-vs-fitch)
- **faith** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/faith-vs-fitch)
- **fifth** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fifth-vs-fitch)
- **fetch** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fetch-vs-fitch)
- **finch** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/finch-vs-fitch)
- **filth** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/filth-vs-fitch)
- **firth** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/firth-vs-fitch)
- **Fatah** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fatah-vs-fitch)
- **fintech** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fintech-vs-fitch)

## Common misspellings (8)
`ffitch`, `ficth`, `fitcch`, `fitchh`, `fithc`, `fittch`, `ftich`, `iftch`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/fitch