détachement
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,490
in French word usage
Misspellings
18
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
détachement is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de se détacher ou état de celui qui s’est détaché d’une passion, d’un sentiment, de tout ce qui peut captiver trop l’esprit ou le cœur. Pronounced \de.taʃ.mɑ̃\. Often confused with détachent and détachements.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | détachement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \de.taʃ.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #10,490 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for détachement is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \de.taʃ.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #10,490 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 18 documented wrong-spelling variants for détachement, with forms such as "ddétachement", "detachement", and "dtéachement". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "détachent", "détachements", 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 détachement, spelled D-É-T-A-C-H-E-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action de se détacher ou état de celui qui s’est détaché d’une passion, d’un sentiment, de tout ce qui peut captiver trop l’esprit ou le cœur.
- 2Groupe de soldats ou troupe qu’on a détachée d’un corps plus considérable pour quelque service.
- 3Figure du raisonnement logique concernant l’implication, qui pose l’antécédent pour déduire le conséquent : (1) Si P, alors Q. (2) Or P. (3) Donc Q.
- 4Cas du travailleur détaché
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddétachement,detachement,dtéachement,déatchement,détacchement,détacehment,détacheemnt,détachemennt,détachementt,détachemetn,détachemment,détachemnet,détachhement,détachmeent,détahcement,détcahement,déttachement,édtachement
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Relative frequency of common misspelling types for détachement
Misspelling Variants of "détachement"
Frequency rank: #10,490 in French
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Nearby French words
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