patenôtre
\pat.notʁ\
The verdict
“patenôtre” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Oraison dominicale ou prière du « Notre Père ».
Corpus desk
Index FR-patenotre · patenôtre · French
patenôtre · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | patenôtre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pat.notʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « patenôtre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
patenôtre is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pat.notʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for patenôtre, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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. The correct French form is patenôtre, spelled P-A-T-E-N-Ô-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1Oraison dominicale ou prière du « Notre Père ».
- 2Suite de prières marmonnées.
- 3Chapelet ou cordelette fermée, en forme de collier, comprenant un nombre déterminé de nœuds ou boules (10, 50 ou 150 le plus souvent), destinés à guider le décompte de prières vocales : Notre Père, Ave Maria, ou oraisons jaculatoires.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how patenôtre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] ; vous les béguines au noir bonnet, vous direz vos patenôtres au lieu de radoter sur l'un et l'autre et en même temps ça vous diminuera votre temps de purgatoire.
Rêveurs et brochant des babines comme singes disant leurs patenôtres, ils se promenaient sur la galerie, tantôt marmottant, tantôt poussant de grands éclats de voix.
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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.