Crédit patate
\kʁe.di pa.tat\
The verdict
“Crédit patate” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Surnom donné au Crédit agricole (banque française).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Crédit patate |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kʁe.di pa.tat\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Crédit patate” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Crédit patate is 13 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kʁe.di pa.tat\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Surnom donné au Crédit agricole (banque française).".
No misspelling variants are generated for Crédit patate in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is Crédit patate, spelled C-R-É-D-I-T- -P-A-T-A-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Surnom donné au Crédit agricole (banque française).
Synonyms
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.
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Using “Crédit patate”
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- The one correct French spelling is C-R-É-D-I-T- -P-A-T-A-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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