pataud
\pa.to\
The verdict
“pataud” is uncommon French (frequency #85,108 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,108
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dont les manières sont lourdes, maladroites.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pataud · pataud · French
pataud · rank #85,108 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,108
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH passo
Nearest frequency peer: passo (-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 « pataud »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- papounet
papounet
14,898 corpus weight
- parachevé
parachevé
14,897 corpus weight
- parasitolog…
parasitologie
14,896 corpus weight
- passo
passo
14,894 corpus weight
- pataud
pataud
14,893 corpus weight
- pavia
pavia
14,891 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pataud » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pataud |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pa.to\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #85,108 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pataud » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pataud is uncommon French at frequency #85,108 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pa.to\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dont les manières sont lourdes, maladroites.".
pataud has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is pataud, spelled P-A-T-A-U-D.
Definition
- 1Dont les manières sont lourdes, maladroites.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pataud appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Kinkin, vers la quarantaine, était un gaillard de taille moyenne qui dissimulait sous des dehors chétifs et une allure pataude une force herculéenne et une agilité de singe.
Vingt fois, dans la suite des temps, le grand baromètre a voyagé de gîte en gîte. Vingt fois les déménageurs l’ont couché dans la paille avec des précautions pataudes.
This word in other languages
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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