attach
at·tach/əˈtæt͡ʃ/verb
attach is spelled A-T-T-A-C-H, 2 syllables: at·tach. The wrong spelling people search most is attacht: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 256 of all searches for the word. Attach is a verb meaning “To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively)”.
How many letters and syllables are in attach?
| Letters | 6: A-T-T-A-C-H |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: at·tach |
| In writing | 5.6 times per million words; the 10,358th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, attacht, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell attach?
Attach is spelled A-T-T-A-C-H. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 258 of the searches for attach in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is attach?
Attach appears 5.6 times per million words in written English, the 10,358th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce attach?
- /əˈtæt͡ʃ/
Attach has 2 syllables, split at·tach in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-attach.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with attach?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as attach.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: chatta.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of attach
- attaches present, singular, he/she/it
- attaching participle, present
- attached participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does attach mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
You need to attach the carabiner to your harness.
- 2
To adhere; to be attached.
- 3
To include an attachment with a communication (especially an email or other electronic communication).
I've attached the contract to this email.
- 4
To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.
Dower will attach.
- 5
To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral influence; with to.
attached to a friend; attaching others to us by wealth or flattery
- 6
To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to.
to attach great importance to a particular circumstance
- 7
obsoleteTo take, seize, or lay hold of.
- 8
obsoleteTo arrest, seize.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Attach in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense to fasten, to join to:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | attacher |
| German | anbringen |
| Portuguese | anexar |
| Spanish | adjuntar, atachar, atachear, adosar, prender, unir |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does attach come from?
From Middle English attachen, from Old French atachier, variant of estachier (“bind”), derived from estache (“stick”), from Frankish *stakkā, *stakō (“stick”), from Proto-Germanic *stakô (“pole, bar, stick, stake”). Doublet of attack. More at stake, stack. Displaced native Old English þīedan.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).