palatine

/\pa.la.tin\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#39,436

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

9

similar word pairs

palatine is aFrenchnoun. It means: Épouse ou fille du prince-électeur palatin (le comte palatin du Rhin, dignité héréditaire appartenant au chef de la maison de Wittelsbach). Pronounced \pa.la.tin\. Often confused with plaine and patine.

Key facts for palatine
PropertyValue
Headwordpalatine
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pa.la.tin\
Letters8
Frequency rank#39,436
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of palatine in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for palatine is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.la.tin\. Corpus data places it at rank #39,436 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for palatine, with forms such as "aplatine", "paaltine", and "palaitne". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "plaine", "patine", "platine", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 palatine, spelled P-A-L-A-T-I-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Épouse ou fille du prince-électeur palatin (le comte palatin du Rhin, dignité héréditaire appartenant au chef de la maison de Wittelsbach).
  2. 2
    Épouse d’un palatin, un gouverneur d’une voïvodie dans la république des Deux Nations et en Pologne.
  3. 3
    Vêtement féminin fait de fourrure, porté en hiver sur le cou et sur les épaules, et qui pend sur le devant.
  4. 4
    Ensemble des poils poussant sur la poitrine.

Synonyms

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: aplatine,paaltine,palaitne,palatien,palatinne,palatnie,palattine,pallatine,paltaine,plaatine,ppalatine

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for palatine

Misspelling Variants of "palatine"

aplatine8paaltine8palaitne8palatien8palatinne9palatnie8palattine9pallatine9
Misspelling Variants of "palatine"

Frequency rank: #39,436 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "palatine"?
"palatine" is spelled P-A-L-A-T-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pa.la.tin\.
What does "palatine" mean?
As a noun, "palatine" means: Épouse ou fille du prince-électeur palatin (le comte palatin du Rhin, dignité héréditaire appartenant au chef de la maison de Wittelsbach).
What words are commonly confused with "palatine"?
"palatine" is commonly confused with "plaine", "patine", "platine". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "palatine"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "palatine" is \pa.la.tin\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "palatine" come from?
"palatine" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.