datcha
\dat.ʃa\
The verdict
“datcha” is uncommon French (frequency #80,106 among 404,891 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,106
- frequency rank, French
- 404,891
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Résidence secondaire dans la campagne russe.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | datcha |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dat.ʃa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #80,106 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “datcha” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
datcha is uncommon French at frequency #80,106 among 404,891 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \dat.ʃa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Résidence secondaire dans la campagne russe.".
No misspelling variants are generated for datcha in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is datcha, spelled D-A-T-C-H-A.
Definition
- 1Résidence secondaire dans la campagne russe.
This word in other languages
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.
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Using “datcha”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is D-A-T-C-H-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.