Patay
The verdict
“Patay” is uncommon French (frequency #96,226 among 248,534 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,226
- frequency rank, French
- 248,534
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Loiret.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Patay |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #96,226 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Patay” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Patay is uncommon French at frequency #96,226 among 248,534 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département du Loiret.".
Patay doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Patay, spelled P-A-T-A-Y.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Loiret.
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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Using “Patay”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-A-T-A-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.