patelin
\pa.tlɛ̃\
The verdict
“patelin” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,089. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,089
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui tâche d’en venir à ses fins par des manières flatteuses, faussement aimables, insinuantes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-patelin · patelin · French
patelin · rank #36,089 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,089
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH parsemée
Nearest frequency peer: parsemée (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « patelin »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- parjure
parjure
63,915 corpus weight
- parrainages
parrainages
63,914 corpus weight
- parsemée
parsemée
63,913 corpus weight
- patelin
patelin
63,912 corpus weight
- patiner
patiner
63,911 corpus weight
- patineuse
patineuse
63,910 corpus weight
What this shows « patelin » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | patelin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pa.tlɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #36,089 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « patelin »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around patelin (IPA \pa.tlɛ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #36,089 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui tâche d’en venir à ses fins par des manières flatteuses, faussement aimables, insinuantes.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for patelin, with forms such as "aptelin", "paetlin", and "pateiln". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "patin", "Paulin", "Patel", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is patelin, spelled P-A-T-E-L-I-N.
Definition
- 1Qui tâche d’en venir à ses fins par des manières flatteuses, faussement aimables, insinuantes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how patelin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] une pirogue nous accosta. Trois naturels la montaient, dont l’un était évidemment un chef. À leurs manières douces et patelines, surtout au respect de ces hommes pour les objets épars sur le pont, il était facile de voir que les missionnaires avaient civilisé et catéchisé cette terre.
Il s’avança vers Léon, et, avec ce sourire de bénignité pateline que prennent les ecclésiastiques.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aptelin
- paetlin
- pateiln
- patelinn
- patellin
- patelni
- patlein
- pattelin
- ppatelin
- ptaelin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of patelin - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).