attacher

\a.ta.ʃe\

/\a.ta.ʃe\/ verb

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The verdict

“attacher” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,927. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,927
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
9
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fixer une chose ou une personne à une autre, en sorte qu’elle y tienne.

Corpus desk

Index FR-attacher · attacher · French

attacher · rank #6,927 · 10 variants · 9 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,927
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH ascenseur

Nearest frequency peer: ascenseur (-2 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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « attacher »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « attacher » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

attacher vs attaquer
75% similar
attacher vs attaches
88% similar
attacher vs attarder
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for attacher
PropertyValue
Headwordattacher
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.ta.ʃe\
Letters8
Frequency rank#6,927
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « attacher »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.attacherse place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « ascenseur » (#6,925), « Biologie » (#6,929), « bonnet » (#6,930). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « attacher » est au #6,927. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around attacher (IPA \a.ta.ʃe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #6,927 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for attacher, with forms such as "atacher", "atatcher", and "attaccher". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "attaquer", "attaches", "attarder", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is attacher, spelled A-T-T-A-C-H-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Fixer une chose ou une personne à une autre, en sorte qu’elle y tienne.
  2. 2
    Joindre, lier à quelqu’un, à quelque chose d’une façon durable.
  3. 3
    Attribuer, faire dépendre de.
  4. 4
    Intéresser vivement, en parlant des choses.
  5. 5
    Coller au fond d’un récipient pendant la cuisson, en parlant d’aliments.
  6. 6
    S’appliquer vivement, s’intéresser à une chose.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Si l’animal a le vice de mordre, il est attaché très-court, et si vous êtes curieux d’en savoir le motif, l’on vous répond que c’est parce qu’il irait manger la ration du voisin.
  2. Les étriers, larges et pesants, sont attachés à des anneaux de fer au moyen d’étrivières très courtes en soie ou en lanières de cuir tressées.

Synonyms

accrocherfixerlier

This word in other languages

attach(English)fijar(Español)binden(Deutsch)aprazar(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • atacher
  • atatcher
  • attaccher
  • attacehr
  • attacherr
  • attachher
  • attachre
  • attahcer
  • attcaher
  • tatacher

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of attacher - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

atacher1atatcher2attaccher1attacehr2attacherr1attachher1attachre2attahcer2
Edit distance from "attacher"

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 "attacher"?
"attacher" is spelled A-T-T-A-C-H-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ta.ʃe\.
What does "attacher" mean?
As a verb, "attacher" means: Fixer une chose ou une personne à une autre, en sorte qu’elle y tienne.
What words are commonly confused with "attacher"?
"attacher" is commonly confused with "attaquer", "attaches", "attarder". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "attacher"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "attacher" is \a.ta.ʃe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "attacher" come from?
"attacher" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Biologie#6,929comprise#6,938tablette#6,902syndrome#6,899

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

boucher10 variantsadaptée10 variantsépouser10 variantsdiscute10 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list