Pater noster

/\pa.tɛʁ nɔs.tɛʁ\/ noun

Letters

12 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

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similar word pairs

Pater noster is aFrenchnoun. It means: Prière chrétienne qui commence par ces deux mots; « Pater noster … ». Pronounced \pa.tɛʁ nɔs.tɛʁ\.

Key facts for Pater noster
PropertyValue
HeadwordPater noster
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pa.tɛʁ nɔs.tɛʁ\
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Pater noster is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for Pater noster is 12 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.tɛʁ nɔs.tɛʁ\. 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: "Prière chrétienne qui commence par ces deux mots; « Pater noster … ».".

No misspelling variants are generated for Pater noster in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, 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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is Pater noster, spelled P-A-T-E-R- -N-O-S-T-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Prière chrétienne qui commence par ces deux mots; « Pater noster … ».

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Pater noster"?
"Pater noster" is spelled P-A-T-E-R- -N-O-S-T-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \pa.tɛʁ nɔs.tɛʁ\.
What does "Pater noster" mean?
As a noun, "Pater noster" means: Prière chrétienne qui commence par ces deux mots; « Pater noster … ».
How do you pronounce "Pater noster"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Pater noster" is \pa.tɛʁ nɔs.tɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Pater noster" come from?
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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.