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scritch

/skɹɪt͡ʃ/verb, noun

scritch is spelled S-C-R-I-T-C-H: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 69 million words in written English, the 262,293rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, scritch means “To make a light scratching sound, like a small animal burrowing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in scritch?

Letters7: S-C-R-I-T-C-H
In writingabout once in every 69 million words; the 262,293rd 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 scritch?

Scritch appears about once in every 69 million words in written English, the 262,293rd 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 scritch?

  • /skɹɪt͡ʃ/

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

Forms of scritch

  • scritches plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • scritching participle, present
  • scritched participle, past

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

What does scritch mean?

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

verb

  1. 1

    To make a light scratching sound, like a small animal burrowing.

  2. 2

    To scratch so as to relieve an itch or irritation.

  3. 3

    To pet an animal or human in a scratching manner.

  4. 4

    obsoleteTo screech.

noun

  1. 1

    A light scratching sound, like a small animal burrowing.

  2. 2

    The act of scratching an itch.

  3. 3

    The act of petting an animal or human in a scratching manner.

  4. 4

    obsoletea screech

  5. 5

    UKobsoleteA thrush.

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

Where does scritch come from?

Variant of scratch.

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

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