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mentch

mentch is the alternative spelling of mensch.

Meaning of mensch

Noun

mensch (plural mensches or menschen)

  1. A person of strength, integrity, and honor or compassion; a gentleman.
    • […]Scott Nearing was a grand old man a real mensch[…]1956, Allen Ginsberg, “America”, in Howl and Other Poems (Pocket Poets Series), City Lights Books, →OCLC, page 33

Forms of mentch

pluralmentches

Questions about mentch

What is mentch the alternative spelling of?
Mentch is the alternative spelling of mensch.

Words near mentch in the dictionary

  1. mentations
  2. Mentawai
  3. Mentawai gibbon
  4. Mentawai gibbons
  5. Mentawais
  6. mentch
  7. mentches
  8. mentd.
  9. mentee
  10. mentees
  11. menteeship

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mentch (page history and authors); mensch (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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