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snatched

/snæt͡ʃt/adjective, verb

snatched is spelled S-N-A-T-C-H-E-D: 8 letters and one syllable. It appears 3.0 times per million words in written English, the 15,368th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, snatched means “Good-looking” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in snatched?

Letters8: S-N-A-T-C-H-E-D
Syllables1
In writing3.0 times per million words; the 15,368th 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 snatched?

Snatched appears 3.0 times per million words in written English, the 15,368th 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 snatched?

  • /snæt͡ʃt/

Snatched has one syllable.

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

Forms of snatched

  • more snatched comparative
  • most snatched superlative

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

What does snatched mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Good-looking.

  2. 2

    slangHaving a narrow waist.

    Lucinda impressed her class when she revealed how snatched she was under her baggy sweatshirt.

  3. 3

    slangNarrow.

  4. 4

    slangHaving an attractive, sculpted appearance of face and/or body.

verb

  1. 1

    simple past and past participle of snatch (a form of snatch)

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

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