attaque

/\a.tak\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#957

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

14

similar word pairs

attaque is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action violente, agression. Pronounced \a.tak\. It ranks #957 in French word frequency. Often confused with attarde and attique.

Key facts for attaque
PropertyValue
Headwordattaque
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.tak\
Letters7
Frequency rank#957
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs14
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for attaque is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.tak\. Corpus data places it at rank #957 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for attaque, with forms such as "ataque", "atatque", and "attaqeu". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "attarde", "attique", "atténue", and more, 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 attaque, spelled A-T-T-A-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action violente, agression.
  2. 2
    Le fait d'attaquer.
  3. 3
    Travaux qu’on fait pour s’approcher d’une place assiégée.
  4. 4
    Atteinte ; insulte.
  5. 5
    Certaines paroles lâchées comme sans dessein, pour sonder l’intention de quelqu’un ou pour le piquer par quelque reproche.
  6. 6
    Apparition soudaine, des accès subits de certaines maladies.
  7. 7
    Accès d’apoplexie.
  8. 8
    Début de l'émission d'un son.
  9. 9
    Constituants initiaux facultatifs de la syllabe, composés de zéro, une ou plusieurs consonnes, situés avant le noyau syllabique.
  10. 10
    Essentiellement dans les sports collectifs avec un ballon, action d'une équipe qui tente de marquer.
  11. 11
    Ensemble des attaquants d'une équipe.
  12. 12
    Le fait de révéler, de creuser les joints de grains d'une pièce métallique par action d'une solution acide afin de pouvoir les voir au microscope.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ataque,atatque,attaqeu,attaqque,attauqe,attqaue,tataque

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for attaque

Misspelling Variants of "attaque"

ataque6atatque7attaqeu7attaqque8attauqe7attqaue7tataque7
Misspelling Variants of "attaque"

Frequency rank: #957 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "attaque"?
"attaque" is spelled A-T-T-A-Q-U-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.tak\.
What does "attaque" mean?
As a noun, "attaque" means: Action violente, agression.
What words are commonly confused with "attaque"?
"attaque" is commonly confused with "attarde", "attique", "atténue". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "attaque"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "attaque" is \a.tak\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "attaque" come from?
"attaque" 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.