détacha
\de.ta.ʃa\
The verdict
“détacha” is uncommon French (frequency #65,102 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,102
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de détacher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-detacha · détacha · French
détacha · rank #65,102 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,102
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH désintègre
Nearest frequency peer: désintègre (-1 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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « détacha »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- déplorons
déplorons
34,902 corpus weight
- déposes
déposes
34,901 corpus weight
- désintègre
désintègre
34,900 corpus weight
- détacha
détacha
34,899 corpus weight
- détournait
détournait
34,898 corpus weight
- détruisirent
détruisirent
34,897 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « détacha » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | détacha |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.ta.ʃa\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #65,102 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « détacha » en français
Rare enough to double-check
détacha is uncommon French at frequency #65,102 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.ta.ʃa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de détacher.".
détacha has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is détacha, spelled D-É-T-A-C-H-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de détacher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how détacha appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Romain détacha le mancheron de cuir, l’attacha à la roue afin que le navire conservât sa route, tout droit, parallèlement à la côte africaine dont ils étaient distants d’une trentaine de milles.
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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