pâte
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,696
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
pâte is aFrenchnoun. It means: Préparation culinaire à base de farine consommée après cuisson sous forme de pain, tarte, gâteau, friandise, etc. Pronounced \pɑt\. It ranks #5,696 in French word frequency. Often confused with pe and Pt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pâte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɑt\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #5,696 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pâte is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɑt\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,696 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for pâte, with forms such as "pate", "ppâte", and "ptâe". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pe", "Pt", "pré", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is pâte, spelled P-Â-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Préparation culinaire à base de farine consommée après cuisson sous forme de pain, tarte, gâteau, friandise, etc.
- 2Pâte alimentaire, aliment fait de petits morceaux de farine de blé dur, de blé tendre ou de riz, et parfois d’œuf et de sel, détrempée, pétrie, précuite et découpée sous diverses formes et tailles.
- 3Substance ou mélange, plus ou moins mou, de divers ingrédients.
- 4Substance ou mélange, plus ou moins mou, de divers ingrédients.
- 5Personne au caractère facile.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: pate,ppâte,ptâe,pâet,pâtte,âpte
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pâte
Misspelling Variants of "pâte"
Frequency rank: #5,696 in French
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