partner

noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#35,196

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

19

similar word pairs

partner is aFrenchnoun. It means: Variante ancienne (restée vivante au Canada) de partenaire. Often confused with pater and porter.

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

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for partner is 7 letters long, classified as anoun. Corpus data places it at rank #35,196 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Variante ancienne (restée vivante au Canada) de partenaire.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for partner, with forms such as "aprtner", "parnter", and "parrtner". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "pater", "porter", "prôner", 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 partner, spelled P-A-R-T-N-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

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

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: aprtner,parnter,parrtner,partenr,partnerr,partnner,partnre,parttner,patrner,ppartner,pratner

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for partner

Misspelling Variants of "partner"

aprtner7parnter7parrtner8partenr7partnerr8partnner8partnre7parttner8
Misspelling Variants of "partner"

Frequency rank: #35,196 in French

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.
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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.