stitch

/\stɪt͡ʃ\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#53,004

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

stitch is aFrenchnoun. It means: Point (1), maille, résultat de piquer dans un tissu avec une aiguille enfilée, piqûre. Pronounced \stɪt͡ʃ\.

Key facts for stitch
PropertyValue
Headwordstitch
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\stɪt͡ʃ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#53,004
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of stitch in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for stitch is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \stɪt͡ʃ\. Corpus data places it at rank #53,004 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for stitch in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is stitch, spelled S-T-I-T-C-H, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Point (1), maille, résultat de piquer dans un tissu avec une aiguille enfilée, piqûre.
  2. 2
    Reprise.
  3. 3
    Suture.
  4. 4
    Fringue.
  5. 5
    Point de côté.
  6. 6
    Douleur aigüe et localisée, similaire à celle causée par une piqûre.
  7. 7
    Liaison entre les cahiers d’un livre dans une reliure.
  8. 8
    Espace parcouru, distance (par analogie à l’espace parcouru par une aiguille lors d’un travail de couture).
  9. 9
    Sillon, ride.
  10. 10
    Contorsion, torsion.
  11. 11
    Sur TikTok, inclusion d’une vidéo dans une autre, créant une vidéo collaborative.

Synonyms

Frequency rank: #53,004 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "stitch"?
"stitch" is spelled S-T-I-T-C-H. The IPA pronunciation is \stɪt͡ʃ\.
What does "stitch" mean?
As a noun, "stitch" means: Point (1), maille, résultat de piquer dans un tissu avec une aiguille enfilée, piqûre.
How do you pronounce "stitch"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "stitch" is \stɪt͡ʃ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "stitch" come from?
"stitch" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.