patène
\pa.tɛn\
The verdict
“patène” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vase sacré, de forme plate, qui couvre le calice et reçoit l’hostie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-patene · patène · French
patène · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | patène |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.tɛn\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
patène is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.tɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Vase sacré, de forme plate, qui couvre le calice et reçoit l’hostie.".
No misspelling variants are generated for patène in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 patène, spelled P-A-T-È-N-E.
Definition
- 1Vase sacré, de forme plate, qui couvre le calice et reçoit l’hostie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how patène appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le lundi, 7 février 1859, à Vrigne-aux-Bois (Ardennes), M. le curé célébrait la Messe. Comme il se relevait de la dernière génuflexion que fait le prêtre après l’Élévation, ses yeux furent attirés vers l’Hostie consacrée par un éclat singulier, et, à la place de cette hostie, il vit comme une petite patène d’or dont le rayonnement était merveilleux.
C’est une messe. […]. Il achève l’offertoire, et je le vois, debout, qui saisit la patène plaquée contre sa poitrine. Un enfant de chœur lui tend, l’une après l’autre, les burettes, cependant que le prêtre dépose l’hostie sur le corporal.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.