pataugeoire
\pa.to.ʒwaʁ\
The verdict
“pataugeoire” is uncommon French (frequency #87,010 among 248,534 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,010
- frequency rank, French
- 248,534
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Bassin très peu profond, dans une piscine, utilisé le plus souvent par les tout jeunes enfants.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pataugeoire · pataugeoire · French
pataugeoire · rank #87,010 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,010
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 248,534
- PHOTO-FINISH patatras
Nearest frequency peer: patatras (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “pataugeoire”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- pataquès
pataquès
12,993 corpus weight
- patatras
patatras
12,992 corpus weight
- pataugeoire
pataugeoire
12,991 corpus weight
- Patmos
Patmos
12,990 corpus weight
- pavlova
pavlova
12,989 corpus weight
- peek
peek
12,988 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “pataugeoire” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pataugeoire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.to.ʒwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #87,010 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pataugeoire” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
pataugeoire is uncommon French at frequency #87,010 among 248,534 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.to.ʒwaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bassin très peu profond, dans une piscine, utilisé le plus souvent par les tout jeunes enfants.".
Zero misspellings are on record for pataugeoire in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pataugeoire, spelled P-A-T-A-U-G-E-O-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Bassin très peu profond, dans une piscine, utilisé le plus souvent par les tout jeunes enfants.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pataugeoire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J'ai amené Frédéric à la pataugeoire hier.
Pendant les trois premiers mois de cette médiation hebdomadaire, Mehdi n’a pu entrer dans le bassin de la pataugeoire.
Synonyms
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pataugeoire", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.