paternelles
\pa.tɛʁ.nɛl\
The verdict
“paternelles” is uncommon French (frequency #76,877 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,877
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de paternel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-paternelles · paternelles · French
paternelles · rank #76,877 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,877
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pata
Nearest frequency peer: pata (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « paternelles »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Parménide
Parménide
23,128 corpus weight
- paroissien
paroissien
23,127 corpus weight
- parrainés
parrainés
23,126 corpus weight
- pata
pata
23,125 corpus weight
- paternelles
paternelles
23,124 corpus weight
- pedo
pedo
23,120 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « paternelles » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paternelles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pa.tɛʁ.nɛl\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #76,877 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « paternelles » en français
Rare enough to double-check
paternelles is uncommon French at frequency #76,877 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pa.tɛʁ.nɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de paternel.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for paternelles, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is paternelles, spelled P-A-T-E-R-N-E-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de paternel.
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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