patate frite
\pa.tat fʁit\
The verdict
“patate frite” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tranche ou bâtonnet de pomme de terre cuit dans l’huile chaude jusqu’à obtenir une texture dorée et croustillante à l’extérieur et tendre à l’intérieur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-patate-frite · patate frite · French
patate frite · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | patate frite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.tat fʁit\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « patate frite » en français
Rare enough to double-check
patate frite is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.tat fʁit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tranche ou bâtonnet de pomme de terre cuit dans l’huile chaude jusqu’à obtenir une texture dorée et croustillante à l’extérieur et tendre à l’intérieur.".
patate frite doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is patate frite, spelled P-A-T-A-T-E- -F-R-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Tranche ou bâtonnet de pomme de terre cuit dans l’huile chaude jusqu’à obtenir une texture dorée et croustillante à l’extérieur et tendre à l’intérieur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how patate frite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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