patache
Letters
7 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
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Confusables
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similar word pairs
patache is aFrenchnoun. It means: Navire léger employé au service des grands navires, pour aller à la découverte ou faire parvenir des messages, par la suite au service de la douane. Pronounced \pa.taʃ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | patache |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.taʃ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for patache is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.taʃ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for patache in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 patache, spelled P-A-T-A-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Navire léger employé au service des grands navires, pour aller à la découverte ou faire parvenir des messages, par la suite au service de la douane.
- 2Navire léger employé au service des grands navires, pour aller à la découverte ou faire parvenir des messages, par la suite au service de la douane.
- 3Sorte de diligence non suspendue, par laquelle on voyage à peu de frais.
- 4Voiture incommode et de modèle désuet.
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