Ratchet

//ˈɹæt͡ʃɪt//

Synonyms for "ratchet" (29 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (6)

cog comb crag equipment fang

Noun(1 words)

dog

Strong matches (9)

harrow jag noisemaker peak pecten printing equipment projection

Noun(2 words)

matraca noisemaker

Related words (14)

Noun(2 words)

rachet ratch

Verb(2 words)

rachet up ratchet down

rake sawtooth snag snaggle socket wrench spire sprocket spur steeple tooth

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

10 relation types

More general

7 entries

advance go on march on mechanical device move on pass on progress

Synonyms

1 entries

socket wrench

at location

1 entries

repair shop

derived

20 entries

Brownian ratchet Feynman-Smoluchowski ratchet Muller's ratchet full ratchet microratchet nonratchetingratchet up ratchet coupling ratchet drill ratchet effect ratchet jack ratchet jaw ratchet lever ratchet punch ratchet wrench ratcheting toadlet ratchetlike

Showing 16 of 20 words.

etymologically related_to

1 entries

wretched

has context

2 entries

slang us

is a

2 entries

mechanical device tool

manner of

1 entries

advance

part of

1 entries

spiral ratchet screwdriver

related to

11 entries

click detent ghetto indecorous pawl procedure ratch ratchet wheel ratchet wrench regulation unseemly

Translations

30 translations across 12 languages.

Catalan

2 entries

cadell noun (pawl, click or detent for a ratchet wheel)
trinquet noun (pawl, click or detent for a ratchet wheel)

Dutch

1 entries

pal noun (pawl, click or detent for a ratchet wheel)

Finnish

1 entries

räikkä noun (pawl, click or detent for a ratchet wheel)

French

1 entries

rochet noun (pawl, click or detent for a ratchet wheel)

German

2 entries

Gesperre noun (mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel and pawl)
Sperrklinke noun (pawl, click or detent for a ratchet wheel)

Hebrew

1 entries

רַעֲשָׁן noun (pawl, click or detent for a ratchet wheel)

Italian

4 entries

arpionismo noun (mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel and pawl)
cricchetto noun (pawl, click or detent for a ratchet wheel)
nottolino noun (pawl, click or detent for a ratchet wheel)
ruota a cricchetto noun (mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel and pawl)

Persian

2 entries

ضامن چرخ دنده noun (pawl, click or detent for a ratchet wheel)
چرخ ضامندار noun (mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel and pawl)

Polish

4 entries

mechanizm zębatkowo-zapadkowy noun (mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel and pawl)
zapadka noun (pawl, click or detent for a ratchet wheel)
stopniowo zmieniać wielkość verb (transitive)
stopniowo zmieniać wielkość verb (intransitive)

Russian

1 entries

храпови́к noun (mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel and pawl)

Spanish

4 entries

carraca noun (mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel and pawl)
linguete noun (pawl, click or detent for a ratchet wheel)
matraca noun (pawl, click or detent for a ratchet wheel)
matraca noun (mechanism composed of a ratchet wheel and pawl)

Swedish

1 entries

spärrhake noun (pawl, click or detent for a ratchet wheel)

Sample sentences

17 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

We need to ratchet up the pressure. We can't let it simply subside.

Source: tatoeba (9630350)

Handcuffs are none other than a ratchet mechanism.

Source: tatoeba (9923414)

Yanni used a small ratchet to tighten the bolt.

Source: tatoeba (10011527)

Yanni turned the ratchet to loosen the bolt.

Source: tatoeba (10011531)

Showing 4 of 17 available sentences.

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.