patches
\patʃ\
The verdict
“patches” is uncommon French (frequency #79,595 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,595
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe patcher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-patches · patches · French
patches · rank #79,595 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,595
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH patri
Nearest frequency peer: patri (+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 « patches »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- paramétrique
paramétrique
20,409 corpus weight
- parez
parez
20,408 corpus weight
- patches
patches
20,406 corpus weight
- patri
patri
20,405 corpus weight
- patristique
patristique
20,404 corpus weight
- patronages
patronages
20,403 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « patches » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | patches |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \patʃ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #79,595 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « patches » en français
Rare enough to double-check
patches is uncommon French at frequency #79,595 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \patʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for patches, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is patches, spelled P-A-T-C-H-E-S.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe patcher.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe patcher.
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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