pattie

noun

"pattie" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“pattie” is uncommon English (frequency #54,381 among 46,516 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#54,381
frequency rank, English
46,516
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Alternative spelling of patty.

Key facts for pattie
PropertyValue
Headwordpattie
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters6
Frequency rank#54,381
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “pattie” sits in English frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). pattie lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

pattie is uncommon English at frequency #54,381 among 46,516 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative spelling of patty.".

pattie has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is pattie, spelled P-A-T-T-I-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of patty.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pattie"?
"pattie" is spelled P-A-T-T-I-E.
What does "pattie" mean?
As a noun, "pattie" means: Alternative spelling of patty.
What language does "pattie" come from?
"pattie" is a English word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Using “pattie”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct English spelling is P-A-T-T-I-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words

Other uncommon English words near this rank

Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list