pata
\pa.ta\
The verdict
“pata” is uncommon French (frequency #76,876 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,876
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de pater.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pata · pata · French
pata · rank #76,876 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,876
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH parrainés
Nearest frequency peer: parrainés (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « pata »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pardonnerez
pardonnerez
23,129 corpus weight
- Parménide
Parménide
23,128 corpus weight
- paroissien
paroissien
23,127 corpus weight
- parrainés
parrainés
23,126 corpus weight
- pata
pata
23,125 corpus weight
- paternelles
paternelles
23,124 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pata » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pata |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pa.ta\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #76,876 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pata » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pata is uncommon French at frequency #76,876 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pa.ta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de pater.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pata in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is pata, spelled P-A-T-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de pater.
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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