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Definition: FLETCH |
FLETCHTransitive verb1. To feather, as an arrow. |
Note: Fletch \Fletch\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Fletched; present participle verb or noun Fletching.]. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Fletch is the nickname of the main character in a series of mystery/comedy novels written by Gregory McDonald; the novels spawned two comedy films starring Chevy Chase, though usually with considerable changes along the way.The first Fletch novel introduces I.M. Fletcher, a journalist staying on a beach watching the drug culture for a story, waiting to find the dealer's source before publishing.
A millionaire businessman named Alan Stanwyck approaches Fletch to hire Fletch to murder him; the man tells Fletch that he is dying of cancer and wants to avoid a slow, painful death. Fletch accepts $1000 in cash to listen to the man's proposition; the man offers him $20,000 for the murder and Fletch talks him up to $50,000 in an effort to see if the man is serious. He appears to be serious, and Fletch begins investigating the man's story in between investigating the drug story on the beach and avoiding the two attorneys after him for alimony for each of his ex-wives.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Fletch."
Crosswords: FLETCH |
| English words defined with "FLETCH": Fletched, Fletching. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Fletch Won (2003) | |
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| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Theater & Movies | |
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| "FLETCH" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "FLETCH" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
fletch | 177 | arizona ez fletch | 3 |
benjamin fletch fletcher | 173 | fletch movie quote | 3 |
fletch won | 16 | air fletch | 3 |
fletch quote | 13 | fletch dvd | 3 |
fletch life | 9 | fletch mustang | 3 |
fletch movie | 6 | arizona e fletch z | 2 |
fletch wav | 6 | file fletch wav | 2 |
fletch sound | 6 | fletch madden steve | 2 |
fletch flex | 4 | fletch soundtrack | 2 |
chase chevy fletch | 4 | fletch flex vane | 2 |
arrow fletch | 4 | dvd fletch life | 2 |
fletch wavs | 3 | fletch picture | 2 |
fletch wiley | 3 | fletch poster | 2 |
fletch script | 3 | book fletch | 2 |
3 fletch | 3 | fletch galco | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "FLETCH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | Befiedern. (various references) | |
Manx | fedjeeney (feather). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | etchflay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "FLETCH": fletched, fletcher, fletchers, fletches, fletching, fletchings. (additional references) | |
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"FLETCH" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aletsch, bletch, feltch, filtch, flach, flatch, flech, flect, flesch, flmech, floch, flotch. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words ending with "etch": Vetch, Wretch. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-f-h-l-t" | |
-1 letter: cleft, fetch, letch. | |
-2 letters: celt, chef, clef, etch, felt, heft, lech, left. | |
-3 letters: cel, eft, elf, eth, feh, fet, het, let, tel, the. | |
-4 letters: ef, eh, el, et, he. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-f-h-l-t" | |
+2 letters: chestful, fletched, fletcher, fletches, flichter, flitched, flitches. | |
+3 letters: chestfuls, facecloth, flechette, fletchers, fletching, flichters, lightface, stenchful. | |
+4 letters: catchflies, cuttlefish, facecloths, fetchingly, flechettes, fletchings, flichtered, flycatcher, lightfaced, lightfaces, luftmensch, pitcherful, satchelful, ultrafiche. | |
+5 letters: feldspathic, flichtering, flycatchers, pitcherfuls, pitchersful, satchelfuls, satchelsful, spaceflight, ultrafiches. | |
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