smutch

Questions about smutch

What does smutch mean?

smutch means "make a smudge on; soil by smudging".

How many syllables are in smutch?

smutch has 1 syllable under the regular spelling rules, and is not divided further. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for smutch?

Close synonyms include smear, blur, smudge. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is smutch a common word?

smutch is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.