attachement

/\a.taʃ.mɑ̃\/ noun

Letters

11 characters

Frequency Rank

#8,499

in French word usage

Misspellings

15

tracked variants

Confusables

1

similar word pairs

attachement is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sentiment qui fait qu’on s’attache fortement et volontairement à quelqu’un, à quelque chose. Pronounced \a.taʃ.mɑ̃\. It ranks #8,499 in French word frequency. Often confused with attachent.

Key facts for attachement
PropertyValue
Headwordattachement
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.taʃ.mɑ̃\
Letters11
Frequency rank#8,499
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of attachement in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for attachement is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.taʃ.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,499 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for attachement, with forms such as "atachement", "atatchement", and "attacchement". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "attachent", 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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is attachement, spelled A-T-T-A-C-H-E-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sentiment qui fait qu’on s’attache fortement et volontairement à quelqu’un, à quelque chose.
  2. 2
    Grande application.
  3. 3
    Notion de base de la théorie de l’attachement, considérant le fait pour un enfant de s’attacher, d’avoir une relation avec au moins une personne qui prend soin de lui de façon cohérente et continue.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: atachement,atatchement,attacchement,attacehment,attacheemnt,attachemennt,attachementt,attachemetn,attachemment,attachemnet,attachhement,attachmeent,attahcement,attcahement,tatachement

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for attachement

Misspelling Variants of "attachement"

atachement10atatchement11attacchement12attacehment11attacheemnt11attachemennt12attachementt12attachemetn11
Misspelling Variants of "attachement"

Frequency rank: #8,499 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "attachement"?
"attachement" is spelled A-T-T-A-C-H-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \a.taʃ.mɑ̃\.
What does "attachement" mean?
As a noun, "attachement" means: Sentiment qui fait qu’on s’attache fortement et volontairement à quelqu’un, à quelque chose.
What words are commonly confused with "attachement"?
"attachement" is commonly confused with "attachent". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "attachement"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "attachement" is \a.taʃ.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "attachement" come from?
"attachement" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.