patt
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#45,502
in German word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
patt is anGermanadj. It means: Im Schachspiel: nicht im Schach zu stehen, jedoch keinen regelgerechten Zug mehr ausführen können, ohne in ein Schach zu geraten; die Partie wird dann als unentschieden gewertet Pronounced [pat]. Often confused with Pt and pay.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | patt |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [pat] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #45,502 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for patt is 4 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pat]. Corpus data places it at rank #45,502 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for patt, with forms such as "aptt", "pat", and "ppatt". 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, "Pt", "pay", "put", 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 German form is patt, spelled P-A-T-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Im Schachspiel: nicht im Schach zu stehen, jedoch keinen regelgerechten Zug mehr ausführen können, ohne in ein Schach zu geraten; die Partie wird dann als unentschieden gewertet
- 2im übertragenen Sinn: Zustand, in dem man sich nicht bewegen kann; umgangssprachlich [anders als im Schach] oft von zwei Antagonisten gebraucht, die beide einander (in einem "Clinch") völlig blockieren.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aptt,pat,ppatt,ptat
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for patt
Misspelling Variants of "patt"
Frequency rank: #45,502 in German
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Nearby German words
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