Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

natch

/næt͡ʃ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.15 in modern English

Syllables: natch
IPA: /næt͡ʃ/

10

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

Naturally; of course.

Colloquial

noun

The rump of beef, especially the lower and back part of the rump.

noun

Example Sentences

"The Queen was seen wearing a hat when she visited Ascot, natch."
"[Bug:] You can parry and thrust wittily at a press conference? [Dog:] Natch."
"Engineers held morning meetings sitting in rainbow-colored beanbags, took lunch gratis at the corporate sushi bar and unwound in the afternoon with craft brews from the office keg (nitrogen chilled, natch)."
"The size of Trump’s penis? Somewhere between 6-7cm. All of this is foretold in Revelation 6:7, natch."

Etymology

Clipping of naturally, originally US.

Origin

Source language: Old French

Word Breakdown

Root: nache, natica, natis

Usage

Colloquial

Inflected Forms

natches (plural)

Phrases

natch-bone

Rhymes With

match catch patch scratch batch hatch dispatch attach bach snatch rematch latch

Questions

How do you pronounce natch?: The recorded pronunciation is /næt͡ʃ/.
What does natch mean?: Naturally; of course.
Where does natch come from?: It is traced to Old French.

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