partner

noun

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The verdict

“partner” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,196. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#35,196
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
19
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante ancienne (restée vivante au Canada) de partenaire.

Corpus desk

Index FR-partner · partner · French

partner · rank #35,196 · 11 variants · 19 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #35,196
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH partes

Nearest frequency peer: partes (-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 « partner »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « partner » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

partner vs pater
71% similar
partner vs porter
71% similar
partner vs prôner
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for partner
PropertyValue
Headwordpartner
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters7
Frequency rank#35,196
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs19
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « partner »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).partnerse place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « partes » (#35,195), « Patagonie » (#35,197), « paria » (#35,194). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « partner » est au #35,196. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around partner, anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,196 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Variante ancienne (restée vivante au Canada) de partenaire.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for partner, with forms such as "aprtner", "parnter", and "parrtner". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "pater", "porter", "prôner", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

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 French form is partner, spelled P-A-R-T-N-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Variante ancienne (restée vivante au Canada) de partenaire.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how partner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Eh ! bien, madame, n’est-ce pas une témérité de ma part que de me proposer pour être votre partner à la première contredanse ?
  2. L’œil de Julien resta pénétrant et sévère. Mathilde avait eu un moment d’enthousiasme ; la froideur de son partner la déconcerta profondément.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aprtner
  • parnter
  • parrtner
  • partenr
  • partnerr
  • partnner
  • partnre
  • parttner
  • patrner
  • ppartner
  • pratner

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of partner - 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.

aprtner2parnter2parrtner1partenr2partnerr1partnner1partnre2parttner1
Edit distance from "partner"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "partner"?
"partner" is spelled P-A-R-T-N-E-R.
What does "partner" mean?
As a noun, "partner" means: Variante ancienne (restée vivante au Canada) de partenaire.
What words are commonly confused with "partner"?
"partner" is commonly confused with "pater", "porter", "prôner". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "partner" come from?
"partner" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "partner", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Palmyre#35,191Oyonnax#35,189opérées#35,182privent#35,216

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

Papouasie11 variantsplurielle11 variantsomissions11 variantsnavrant11 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list