Patrouille
[paˈtʁʊljə]
The verdict
“Patrouille” has 12 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #36,544. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,544
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine einzelne Person oder ein Trupp von Militärpersonen oder anderen Personen der Polizei, der oder die eine spezielle taktische Aufgabe wahrnehmen
Corpus desk
Index DE-patrouille · Patrouille · German
Patrouille · rank #36,544 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #36,544
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Patientenverf…
Nearest frequency peer: Patientenverfügung (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Patrouille“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- partiell
partiell
63,460 corpus weight
- Patenschaft
Patenschaft
63,459 corpus weight
- Patientenve…
Patientenverfügung
63,458 corpus weight
- Patrouille
Patrouille
63,457 corpus weight
- pazifischen
pazifischen
63,456 corpus weight
- Personengru…
Personengruppe
63,455 corpus weight
What this shows „Patrouille“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Patrouille |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [paˈtʁʊljə] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #36,544 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Patrouille“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around Patrouille (IPA [paˈtʁʊljə]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,544 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for Patrouille, with forms such as "aptrouille", "partouille", and "patoruille". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Patrouillen", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct German form is Patrouille, spelled P-A-T-R-O-U-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1eine einzelne Person oder ein Trupp von Militärpersonen oder anderen Personen der Polizei, der oder die eine spezielle taktische Aufgabe wahrnehmen
- 2Wachdienst mit einer speziellen taktischen Aufgabe, einem Auftrag, der von einer oder mehreren Personen wahrgenommen wird
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Patrouille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Es soll eine Patrouille ausgeschickt werden, um festzustellen, wie weit die feindliche Stellung noch besetzt ist.“
„Wer von Ost nach West oder von West nach Ost wechseln wollte, der musste sich »über die grüne Grenze« durch Wald und Feld schlagen, vorbei an sowjetischen Streifen und Patrouillen.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aptrouille
- partouille
- patoruille
- patroiulle
- patrouile
- patrouilel
- patroulile
- patrrouille
- patruoille
- pattrouille
- ppatrouille
- ptarouille
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Patrouille - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Patrouille", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).