attaquer
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,703
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
attaquer is aFrenchverb. It means: Assaillir par agression. Pronounced \a.ta.ke\. It ranks #2,703 in French word frequency. Often confused with attique and attaques.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | attaquer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.ta.ke\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #2,703 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for attaquer is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ta.ke\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,703 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for attaquer, with forms such as "ataquer", "atatquer", and "attaqeur". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "attique", "attaques", "atténuer", 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 attaquer, spelled A-T-T-A-Q-U-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Assaillir par agression.
- 2Affronter pour tenter de résoudre.
- 3Assaillir moralement.
- 4Intenter une action judiciaire, en contester la validité.
- 5Piquer vigoureusement un cheval avec l’éperon.
- 6Porter atteinte.
- 7Ronger, détériorer.
- 8S’approcher.
- 9S’affronter.
- 10Entamer ; entreprendre ; commencer.
- 11Commencer à interpréter une œuvre, ou une partie d’une œuvre.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ataquer,atatquer,attaqeur,attaqquer,attaquerr,attaqure,attauqer,attqauer,tataquer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for attaquer
Misspelling Variants of "attaquer"
Frequency rank: #2,703 in French
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