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unlatch

verb

unlatch is spelled U-N-L-A-T-C-H: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 155,937th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, unlatch means “Remove from a latch” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in unlatch?

Letters7: U-N-L-A-T-C-H
In writingabout once in every 26 million words; the 155,937th 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 unlatch?

Unlatch appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 155,937th 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 unlatch?

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

Forms of unlatch

  • unlatches present, singular, he/she/it
  • unlatching participle, present
  • unlatched participle, past

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

What does unlatch mean?

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

verb

  1. 1

    Remove from a latch

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

Where does unlatch come from?

From un- + latch.

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

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