padre
\pa.dʁe\
The verdict
“padre” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,820. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,820
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Aumônier militaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-padre · padre · French
padre · rank #26,820 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,820
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Ontarien
Nearest frequency peer: Ontarien (-1 rank slots)
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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « padre »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- obéissant
obéissant
73,184 corpus weight
- Olaf
Olaf
73,183 corpus weight
- Ontarien
Ontarien
73,182 corpus weight
- padre
padre
73,181 corpus weight
- partiront
partiront
73,180 corpus weight
- PCC
PCC
73,179 corpus weight
What this shows « padre » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | padre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.dʁe\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #26,820 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « padre »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around padre (IPA \pa.dʁe\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,820 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for padre, with forms such as "apdre", "paddre", and "pader". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "par", "pré", "part", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is padre, spelled P-A-D-R-E.
Definition
- 1Aumônier militaire.
- 2Terme utilisé pour désigner un prêtre en Italie, Espagne, Amérique du Sud ou dans le sud-ouest des États-Unis.
- 3Père.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how padre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Celui qui était arrivé jusque-là avec cette auto devait être bien pressé, puisqu’il n’avait pas songé, en s’en allant, à emporter la clef. Un padre, peut-être. C’est dans ce genre de petites voitures qu’on les voyait passer sur les routes de Flandres, pendant la drôle de guerre. Ils allaient porter la bonne parole aux unités perdues dans les villages. Ils…
L’émotion et la colère sont évidentes quand le padre — appellation traditionnelle de l’aumônier, « un militaire non pratiquant » — évoque ses « fils » morts au combat, les familles dans la peine, quand il doit annoncer, expliquer, réconforter.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apdre
- paddre
- pader
- padrre
- parde
- pdare
- ppadre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of padre - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "padre", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).