Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

etched

/ˈɛtʃt/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.26 in modern English

Syllables: etched
IPA: /ˈɛtʃt/

12

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Cut or dug into the surface as by etching.

adj

Toned and with a well-defined musculature.

verb

simple past and past participle of etch

Example Sentences

"[O]ne minute this "Jihadi John" was struggling to get by, and get accepted, in drizzly England, unemployed with a mortgage to pay and a chip on his shoulder, and the next he stands in brilliant Levantine sunlight, where everything is clear and etched, at the vanguard of some Sunni Risorgimento intent on subjecting the world to its murderous brand of Wahhabi Islam."

Derived Forms

nonetched unetched

Synonyms

engraved graven incised inscribed

Rhymes With

stretched fetched sketched outstretched farfetched far-fetched retched fletched kvetched leched shortfetched unfletched

Questions

How do you pronounce etched?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈɛtʃt/.
What does etched mean?: Cut or dug into the surface as by etching.

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