zatch

noun

zatch is a noun meaning “The stomach” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled Z-A-T-C-H, and it appears about once in every 71 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of zatch is zatches.

What does zatch mean?

noun

1
The stomach.

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

Forms of zatch

zatches plural

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

How common is zatch?

Zatch appears about once in every 71 million words in written English, the 265,644th most frequent word form in the list.

zatch0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

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).

Where does zatch come from?

Coined by James Thurber in the 13 Clocks (1950)

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