Patay

name

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The verdict

“Patay” is uncommon French (frequency #96,226 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#96,226
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Loiret.

Corpus desk

Index FR-patay · Patay · French

Patay · rank #96,226 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #96,226
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH participerons

Nearest frequency peer: participerons (-2 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 « Patay »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Patay » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Patay
PropertyValue
HeadwordPatay
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters5
Frequency rank#96,226
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Patay » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Pataytombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « participerons » (#96,224), « pavages » (#96,228), « parthe » (#96,223). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « Patay » est au #96,226. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Patay is uncommon French at frequency #96,226 among 6,826 “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

  1. 1
    Commune française, située dans le département du Loiret.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Patay appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La brigade Dubois de Jancigny arrivait le 1ᵉʳ au soir à Patay, et prenait position à l’ouest de cette ville.
  2. Un drôle de camping-car s’arrête sur la place du marché de Patay (Loiret) : c’est le Solidaribus du Secours populaire.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Patay"?
"Patay" is spelled P-A-T-A-Y.
What does "Patay" mean?
As a proper noun, "Patay" means: Commune française, située dans le département du Loiret.
What language does "Patay" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Patay", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Payan#96,229parco#96,219petar#96,239Ozawa#96,212

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list