attiré

/\a.ti.ʁe\/ verb

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,836

in French word usage

Misspellings

7

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

attiré is aFrenchverb. It means: Participe passé masculin singulier du verbe attirer. Pronounced \a.ti.ʁe\. It ranks #5,836 in French word frequency. Often confused with autre and attise.

Key facts for attiré
PropertyValue
Headwordattiré
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.ti.ʁe\
Letters6
Frequency rank#5,836
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for attiré is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ti.ʁe\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,836 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Participe passé masculin singulier du verbe attirer.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for attiré, with forms such as "atiré", "atitré", and "attire". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "autre", "attise", "attirer", 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 attiré, spelled A-T-T-I-R-É, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Participe passé masculin singulier du verbe attirer.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: atiré,atitré,attire,attirré,attiér,attrié,tatiré

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for attiré

Misspelling Variants of "attiré"

atiré5atitré6attire6attirré7attiér6attrié6tatiré6
Misspelling Variants of "attiré"

Frequency rank: #5,836 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "attiré"?
"attiré" is spelled A-T-T-I-R-É. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ti.ʁe\.
What does "attiré" mean?
As a verb, "attiré" means: Participe passé masculin singulier du verbe attirer.
What words are commonly confused with "attiré"?
"attiré" is commonly confused with "autre", "attise", "attirer". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "attiré"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "attiré" is \a.ti.ʁe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "attiré" come from?
"attiré" 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.