test someone's patience
"test-someone-s-patience" is a 20-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“test someone's patience” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 23
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To begin to frustrate someone.
Corpus desk
Index EN-test-someone-s-patience · test someone's patience · English
test someone's patience · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 23 letters
- VOW-9 9 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | test someone's patience |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 23 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “test someone's patience” in English
Rare enough to double-check
test someone's patience is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To begin to frustrate someone.".
test someone's patience has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is test someone's patience, spelled T-E-S-T- -S-O-M-E-O-N-E-'-S- -P-A-T-I-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1To begin to frustrate someone.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how test someone's patience appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
These frequent Internet outages are testing my patience.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.