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13 short excerpts of Wiktionnary (A collaborative project to produce a free-content dictionary.)

— English words —

• ratchet n. A pawl, click, or detent for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc.
• ratchet n. A mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel, or ratch and pawl.
• ratchet n. A ratchet wrench.
• ratchet n. (By extension) A procedure or regulation that goes in one direction, usually up.
• ratchet n. A noisemaker or musical instrument where sound is generated by a board striking against a rotating gear…
• ratchet v. (Transitive) To cause to become incremented or decremented.
• ratchet v. (Intransitive) To increment or decrement.
• ratchet adj. (US, slang) Ghetto; unseemly, indecorous.

— English words, defined in French —

• ratchet n. (Technique) Clé à cliquet, cliquet.
• ratchet n. (Mécanique) Rochet.
• ratchet v. Intensifier.

— English word, defined in Italian —

• ratchet s. Dente di arresto.

— In French —

• ratchet n.m. (Canada) (Anglicisme) Clé à cliquet (alias clé à rochet).

52 English words from 8 English definitions

against and become board By␣extension cause click composed decrement decremented detent direction etc extension for gear generated Ghetto goes goes␣in holding increment incremented indecorous in␣one instrument Intransitive mechanism musical musical␣instrument noisemaker of␣a one pawl procedure propelling ratch ratchet ratchet␣wheel ratchet␣wrench regulation rotating slang sound striking that Transitive unseemly usually wheel where wrench

7 English words from 5 foreign definitions

alias Canada cliquet Dente Intensifier rochet Technique

5 foreign words from 5 foreign definitions

Anglicisme arresto clé Clé␣à␣cliquet Mécanique

25 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

ratchets ratchety ratcheted ratchet␣up ratcheting ratchet␣jaw ratchetings ratchet␣jack ratchet␣jaws ratchetlike ratchetness ratchet␣drill ratchet␣jacks ratchet␣lever ratchet␣punch ratchet␣wheel ratchet␣drills ratchet␣levers ratchet␣wheels ratchet␣wrench ratchet␣punches ratchet␣coupling ratchet␣wrenches ratchet␣couplings ratcheting␣toadlet

10 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

bratchets fratchety Pratchett scratcheth unratcheted Pratchettian microratchets gabbleratchets thermoratchets Brownian␣ratchets

6 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

bratchet microratchet gabbleratchet thermoratchet Muller's␣ratchet Brownian␣ratchet

14 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ATC che CHE chet Chet het HET rat Rat RAT 'rat ratch tch TCH

11 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

CTA EHC hct Hct HCT tar Tar TAR teh Teh TEH

2 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

chatter traceth

28 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

achatter astretch attacher bratchet catereth catheter charette Charette chatters chattery chattier cheretta chiretta createth heartcut ratchets ratchety reattach re-attach rethatch tetrarch thatcher Thatcher theatric theocrat trachyte tracketh tranchet

18 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

acteth archet careth Cather charet Chater E␣chart hatter Hatter raceth rachet rateth reacht that're Thrace threat Threat trache

10 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

Datchet hatchet latchet matchet ratched ratchel ratches rotchet watchet Watchet

One lipogram (New word found when removing only one letter.)

rachet

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