arracha

\a.ʁa.ʃa\

/\a.ʁa.ʃa\/ verb

The verdict

“arracha” is uncommon French (frequency #57,086 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#57,086
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe arracher.

Corpus desk

Index FR-arracha · arracha · French

arracha · rank #57,086 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #57,086
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH ardant

Nearest frequency peer: ardant (-1 rank slots)

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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « arracha »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « arracha » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for arracha
PropertyValue
Headwordarracha
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.ʁa.ʃa\
Letters7
Frequency rank#57,086
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « arracha » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.arrachatombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « ardant » (#57,085), « arranges » (#57,087), « approchera » (#57,084). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « arracha » est au #57,086. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

arracha is uncommon French at frequency #57,086 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.ʁa.ʃa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe arracher.".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for arracha, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is arracha, spelled A-R-R-A-C-H-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe arracher.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how arracha appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Je ne laissai pas de souscrire une Lettre commune que mes Collegues envoyerent à M. le Docteur Fornés en date du 10 Décembre 1720 où cette infection de l’air étoit mentionnée, ce fut le seul amour de la concorde qui m’arracha cette souscription, persuadé qu’il auroit été hors de propos de disputer avec ces Messieurs sur les causes premieres, dans un tems…

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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "arracha"?
"arracha" is spelled A-R-R-A-C-H-A. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ʁa.ʃa\.
What does "arracha" mean?
As a verb, "arracha" means: Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe arracher.
How do you pronounce "arracha"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "arracha" is \a.ʁa.ʃa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "arracha", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list