dacha
/ˈdæt͡ʃ.ə/
"dacha" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“dacha” is uncommon English (frequency #79,431 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,431
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A Russian villa or summer house in the countryside.
Corpus desk
Index EN-dacha · dacha · English
dacha · rank #79,431 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,431
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Curragh
Nearest frequency peer: Curragh (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “dacha”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- cryptically
cryptically
20,574 corpus weight
- Curragh
Curragh
20,571 corpus weight
- dacha
dacha
20,570 corpus weight
- Daman
Daman
20,568 corpus weight
- datura
datura
20,567 corpus weight
- Davila
Davila
20,566 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “dacha” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dacha |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈdæt͡ʃ.ə/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #79,431 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “dacha” in English
Rare enough to double-check
dacha is uncommon English at frequency #79,431 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈdæt͡ʃ.ə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A Russian villa or summer house in the countryside.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for dacha, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Russian да́ча (dáča), originally "gift, portion, land (granted by a prince)", from дать (datʹ, “to give”). The correct English form is dacha, spelled D-A-C-H-A.
Definition
- 1A Russian villa or summer house in the countryside.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how dacha appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The belt is full of dachi, i.e., summer villas, all now closed. […] Most of the dachi are small; but some large, sumptuous, and more securely fenced, a few with iron palisades to insure privacy. […] There are no roads in the environs of Odessa, except among the dachi by the shore.
This was a great rambling wooden house, fashioned, like most of the Muscovish dachi, or country houses, in the form of a square main building in the centre, flanked by a wing on each side which came forward in a semicircle, like a man’s outstretched arms, as though to embrace the approaching visitors.
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian да́ча (dáča), originally "gift, portion, land (granted by a prince)", from дать (datʹ, “to give”).
This word in other languages
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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