Patroclus
/pəˈtɹəʊ.kləs/
"patroclus" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Patroclus” is uncommon English (frequency #78,925 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,925
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A character in the Iliad, known for his close relationship to Achilles.
Corpus desk
Index EN-patroclus · Patroclus · English
Patroclus · rank #78,925 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,925
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH patentable
Nearest frequency peer: patentable (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “Patroclus”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- patellar
patellar
21,078 corpus weight
- patentable
patentable
21,077 corpus weight
- Patroclus
Patroclus
21,076 corpus weight
- patronus
patronus
21,075 corpus weight
- Peekskill
Peekskill
21,073 corpus weight
- Peloponnese
Peloponnese
21,072 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Patroclus” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Patroclus |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /pəˈtɹəʊ.kləs/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #78,925 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Patroclus” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Patroclus is uncommon English at frequency #78,925 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /pəˈtɹəʊ.kləs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A character in the Iliad, known for his close relationship to Achilles.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Patroclus in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin Patroclus, from Ancient Greek Πάτροκλος (Pátroklos). The correct English form is Patroclus, spelled P-A-T-R-O-C-L-U-S.
Definition
- 1A character in the Iliad, known for his close relationship to Achilles.
Etymology
From Latin Patroclus, from Ancient Greek Πάτροκλος (Pátroklos).
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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