patronus
"patronus" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“patronus” is uncommon English (frequency #78,926 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,926
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative letter-case form of Patronus.
Corpus desk
Index EN-patronus · patronus · English
patronus · rank #78,926 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,926
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH Patroclus
Nearest frequency peer: Patroclus (-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 “patronus”
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 “patronus” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | patronus |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #78,926 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “patronus” in English
Rare enough to double-check
patronus is uncommon English at frequency #78,926 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative letter-case form of Patronus.".
Zero misspellings are on record for patronus in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is patronus, spelled P-A-T-R-O-N-U-S.
Definition
- 1Alternative letter-case form of Patronus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how patronus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Black women are my patronus, and surrounding myself with villages of black women has been my biggest form of self-care.
For my dear, dear #Witchlanders, you are my patronus. Real talk here: you are my guardians against the darkness. You’re the reason I keep writing every day, the reason I didn’t give up even when this book almost killed me, the reason I want to tell this story at all.
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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