pâté de maisons
\pa.te.də.mɛz.ɔ̃\
The verdict
“pâté de maisons” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Petit groupe de maisons ou d’autres bâtiments, délimité par une ou plusieurs voiries, ou d’autres éléments urbanistiques.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pâté de maisons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.te.də.mɛz.ɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pâté de maisons” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pâté de maisons is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.te.də.mɛz.ɔ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Petit groupe de maisons ou d’autres bâtiments, délimité par une ou plusieurs voiries, ou d’autres éléments urbanistiques.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for pâté de maisons, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is pâté de maisons, spelled P-Â-T-É- -D-E- -M-A-I-S-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Petit groupe de maisons ou d’autres bâtiments, délimité par une ou plusieurs voiries, ou d’autres éléments urbanistiques.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “pâté de maisons”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-Â-T-É- -D-E- -M-A-I-S-O-N-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pa.te.də.mɛz.ɔ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.