attaches
/əˈtæt͡ʃɪz/
"attaches" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“attaches” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #24,986. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,986
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - third-person singular simple present indicative of attach
Corpus desk
Index EN-attaches · attaches · English
attaches · rank #24,986 · 10 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,986
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH ashe
Nearest frequency peer: ashe (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “attaches”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Armageddon
Armageddon
75,018 corpus weight
- Arya
Arya
75,017 corpus weight
- ashe
ashe
75,016 corpus weight
- attaches
attaches
75,015 corpus weight
- backfire
backfire
75,013 corpus weight
- Bathurst
Bathurst
75,012 corpus weight
What this shows “attaches” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | attaches |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /əˈtæt͡ʃɪz/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #24,986 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “attaches”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around attaches (IPA /əˈtæt͡ʃɪz/), averb. Corpus frequency is #24,986 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "third-person singular simple present indicative of attach".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for attaches, with forms such as "ataches", "atatches", and "attacches". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "attacks", "attacked", "attacker", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is attaches, spelled A-T-T-A-C-H-E-S.
Definition
- 1third-person singular simple present indicative of attach
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ataches
- atatches
- attacches
- attacehs
- attachess
- attachhes
- attachse
- attahces
- attcahes
- tataches
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of attaches - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).