attaché
[ataʃe]
The verdict
“attaché” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Attaché
Corpus desk
Index DE-attache · attaché · German
attaché · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | attaché |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ataʃe] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „attaché“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
attaché is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ataʃe]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Attaché".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for attaché, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is attaché, spelled A-T-T-A-C-H-É.
Definition
- 1Attaché
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