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letch

/lɛt͡ʃ/noun, verb

letch is spelled L-E-T-C-H: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 146,811th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, letch means “A lecher” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of letch is letches.

How many letters and syllables are in letch?

Letters5: L-E-T-C-H
In writingabout once in every 23 million words; the 146,811th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is letch?

Letch appears about once in every 23 million words in written English, the 146,811th 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 letch?

  • /lɛt͡ʃ/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-letch.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of letch

  • letches plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • lech
  • letching participle, present
  • letched participle, past

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

What does letch mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    archaicStrong desire; passion.

    Some people have a letch for unmasking impostors, or for avenging the wrongs of others.

  2. 2

    informalA lecher.

  3. 3

    A stream or pool in boggy land.

    The Letch near Killingworth Village flows in two branches: the Longbenton Letch and the Forest Hall Letch.

  4. 4

    Alternative form of leach.

verb

  1. 1

    Alternative form of lech (“to behave lecherously”).

  2. 2

    Alternative form of leach.

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

Where does letch come from?

See lech, lecher.

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

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