patronise
"patronise" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“patronise” is uncommon English (frequency #78,001 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,001
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of patronize.
Corpus desk
Index EN-patronise · patronise · English
patronise · rank #78,001 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,001
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH Patnaik
Nearest frequency peer: Patnaik (-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 “patronise”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Parisien
Parisien
22,005 corpus weight
- Patnaik
Patnaik
22,001 corpus weight
- patronise
patronise
22,000 corpus weight
- payless
payless
21,999 corpus weight
- pbk
pbk
21,998 corpus weight
- Pema
Pema
21,995 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “patronise” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | patronise |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #78,001 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “patronise” in English
Rare enough to double-check
patronise is uncommon English at frequency #78,001 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of patronize.".
Zero misspellings are on record for patronise in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From patron + -ise. The correct English form is patronise, spelled P-A-T-R-O-N-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of patronize.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how patronise appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"A chearful glaſs, then," ſaid Sir Sedley, "you think horridly intolerable?" […] "Well, the glaſs is not what I patroniſe," ſaid Sir Theophilus; "it hips me ſo conſumedly the next day; no, I can't patroniſe the glaſs." / "Not patroniſe wine?" cried Lord Newford; "O hang it! O curſe it! that's too bad, Offy![…]"
Mr John Puffingham was a patron—a patron to the diversified layers and strata of men and things pertaining to sublunary matters. He patronised his hatter, who, once a year, smoothed a cheap-and-shabby for his bald and shining brow. He patronised his tailor in the neighbourhood of the Minories. He patronised his washerwoman, his dustman—a pawnbroker he onc…
Etymology
From patron + -ise.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).