keech
/kiːt͡ʃ/obsolete
keech is spelled K-E-E-C-H: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 131,834th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, keech means “A mass or lump of fat rolled up by the butcher” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of keech is keeches.
How many letters and syllables are in keech?
| Letters | 5: K-E-E-C-H |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 19 million words; the 131,834th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
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 keech?
Keech appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 131,834th 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).
How do you pronounce keech?
- /kiːt͡ʃ/
Keech 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)-Vealhurl-keech.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with keech?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as keech.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: cheek.
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).
What does keech mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
obsoleteA mass or lump of fat rolled up by the butcher.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does keech come from?
Compare dialectal English keech (“cake”), perhaps ultimately a back-formation from Middle English kechel (“small cake”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).