patchouli
\pat.ʃu.li\
The verdict
“patchouli” is uncommon French (frequency #72,600 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,600
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom usuel de Pogostemon cablin, plante herbacée de la famille des Lamiacées originaire d’Inde et du sud del’Asie, remarquable par son odeur aromatique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-patchouli · patchouli · French
patchouli · rank #72,600 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,600
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH passantes
Nearest frequency peer: passantes (-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 « patchouli »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Paolini
Paolini
27,406 corpus weight
- papillomavi…
papillomavirus
27,405 corpus weight
- passantes
passantes
27,402 corpus weight
- patchouli
patchouli
27,401 corpus weight
- Paulet
Paulet
27,400 corpus weight
- payeras
payeras
27,399 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « patchouli » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | patchouli |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pat.ʃu.li\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #72,600 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « patchouli » en français
Rare enough to double-check
patchouli is uncommon French at frequency #72,600 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pat.ʃu.li\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for patchouli in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is patchouli, spelled P-A-T-C-H-O-U-L-I.
Definition
- 1Nom usuel de Pogostemon cablin, plante herbacée de la famille des Lamiacées originaire d’Inde et du sud del’Asie, remarquable par son odeur aromatique.
- 2Parfum extrait des feuilles et des tiges de cette plante.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how patchouli appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pastilles de patchouli.
Dans l’air moite, dans la fadeur exhalée des cuvettes, traînait par instant une odeur plus aiguë, quelques brins de patchouli sec, brisés menu au fond d’une coupe.
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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