attached
at·tached/əˈtæt͡ʃt/adjective, verb
attached is spelled A-T-T-A-C-H-E-D, 2 syllables: at·tached. The wrong spelling people search most is attatched: about 800 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Attached is an adjective meaning “Connected; joined”.
How many letters and syllables are in attached?
| Letters | 8: A-T-T-A-C-H-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: at·tached |
| In writing | 33 times per million words; the 2,888th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, attatched, about 800 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell attached?
Attached is spelled A-T-T-A-C-H-E-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for attached 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 attached?
Attached appears 33 times per million words in written English, the 2,888th 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 attached?
- US /əˈtæt͡ʃt/
Attached has 2 syllables, split at·tached in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-attached.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of attached
- more attached comparative
- most attached superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does attached mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Connected; joined.
The car has something of a history attached to it.
- 2
Fond of (used with to).
I'm very attached to my pets.
- 3
Included as an attachment with a communication (especially an email or other electronic communication).
Please see the attached file in my previous email.
- 4
In a romantic or sexual relationship.
As far as I know, he isn't attached, so I'm going to invite him out on a date.
- 5
Broadly joined to a stem or stipe, but not decurrent.
In this group of mushrooms, the attachment of the gills to the stipe ranges from attached to almost decurrent.
- 6
Of a residential building, sharing walls with similar buildings on two, usually opposite, sides.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of attach
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Attached in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | joint, connecté , pris , attaché |
| Portuguese | conectado , apegado |
| Spanish | unido, adjunto, adosado, atachado, acoplado, prendido |
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.