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nautch

UK /nɔːtʃ/obsolete

nautch is spelled N-A-U-T-C-H: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 45 million words in written English, the 206,808th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, nautch means “A dance in the Indian subcontinent, performed by professional dancing girls” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of nautch is nautches.

How many letters and syllables are in nautch?

Letters6: N-A-U-T-C-H
In writingabout once in every 45 million words; the 206,808th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is nautch?

Nautch appears about once in every 45 million words in written English, the 206,808th 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 nautch?

  • UK /nɔːtʃ/
  • /nɑːtʃ/
  • [näːt͡ʃ]

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

What rhymes with nautch?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as nautch from its last stressed vowel (/ɔtʃ/, British pronunciation):

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 nautch mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    IndiaobsoleteA dance in the Indian subcontinent, performed by professional dancing girls.

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

Where does nautch come from?

Borrowed from Hindustani (Hindi नाच (nāc) / Urdu ناچ (nāc)), in turn derived from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀡𑀘𑁆𑀘 (ṇacca), ultimately derived from Sanskrit नृत्य (nṛtya), which was originally नृत्त (nṛttá) (also see नृत्यति (nṛtyati, “to dance”)).

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

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