snatching

/ˈsnæt͡ʃɪŋ/noun, verb

snatching is spelled S-N-A-T-C-H-I-N-G: 9 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 29,649th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, snatching means “The act by which something is snatched” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of snatching is snatchings.

How many letters and syllables are in snatching?

Letters	9: S-N-A-T-C-H-I-N-G
Syllables	2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing	about once in every 1 million words; the 29,649th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none measured in search

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).

How common is snatching?

Snatching appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 29,649th most frequent word form in the list.

snatching0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce snatching?

/ˈsnæt͡ʃɪŋ/

Snatching has 2 syllables (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)-Persent101-snatching.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of snatching

snatchings plural

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

What does snatching mean?

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

noun

1
The act by which something is snatched.
Three purse snatchings in the park were reported this week.

verb

1
present participle and gerund of snatch (a form of snatch)