attacha
\a.ta.ʃa\
The verdict
“attacha” is uncommon French (frequency #55,755 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,755
- 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 attacher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-attacha · attacha · French
attacha · rank #55,755 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,755
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH asseyant
Nearest frequency peer: asseyant (-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 « attacha »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- archanges
archanges
44,249 corpus weight
- ascèse
ascèse
44,248 corpus weight
- asseyant
asseyant
44,247 corpus weight
- attacha
attacha
44,246 corpus weight
- Aunis
Aunis
44,245 corpus weight
- available
available
44,244 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « attacha » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | attacha |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.ta.ʃa\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #55,755 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « attacha » en français
Rare enough to double-check
attacha is uncommon French at frequency #55,755 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.ta.ʃa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe attacher.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for attacha, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is attacha, spelled A-T-T-A-C-H-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe attacher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how attacha appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Romain détacha le mancheron de cuir, l’attacha à la roue afin que le navire conservât sa route, tout droit, parallèlement à la côte africaine dont ils étaient distants d’une trentaine de milles.
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.
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