patent
\pa.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“patent” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,663. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,663
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Clair, manifeste, qui est évident.
Corpus desk
Index FR-patent · patent · French
patent · rank #34,663 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,663
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH passibles
Nearest frequency peer: passibles (-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 « patent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Pasqua
Pasqua
65,341 corpus weight
- passeraient
passeraient
65,340 corpus weight
- passibles
passibles
65,339 corpus weight
- patent
patent
65,338 corpus weight
- pensés
pensés
65,336 corpus weight
- percés
percés
65,335 corpus weight
What this shows « patent » 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 | patent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pa.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #34,663 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « patent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around patent (IPA \pa.tɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #34,663 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for patent, with forms such as "aptent", "paetnt", and "patennt". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ptet", "patin", "Payet", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is patent, spelled P-A-T-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Clair, manifeste, qui est évident.
- 2Non clos, public.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how patent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le fait, d'ailleurs, est patent, incontesté, affirmé de tous côtés : l'aisance s'est énormément développée parmi les ruraux des Côtes-du-Nord.
L’unique censure par le Conseil constitutionnel intervenue dans ce domaine jusqu’à présent tient à ce que les mesures faisant l’objet de l’habilitation comportaient en elles-mêmes un risque patent d’atteinte à une liberté protégée constitutionnellement, ce qui appelait de la part du législateur un énoncé plus précis des finalités poursuivies.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aptent
- paetnt
- patennt
- patentt
- patetn
- patnet
- pattent
- ppatent
- ptaent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of patent - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "patent", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).