pathétiques
\pa.te.tik\
The verdict
“pathétiques” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,300. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,300
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de pathétique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pathetiques · pathétiques · French
pathétiques · rank #30,300 · 17 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #30,300
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH parvienne
Nearest frequency peer: parvienne (-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 « pathétiques »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- parfumerie
parfumerie
69,704 corpus weight
- parmentier
parmentier
69,703 corpus weight
- parvienne
parvienne
69,702 corpus weight
- pathétiques
pathétiques
69,701 corpus weight
- patine
patine
69,700 corpus weight
- peel
peel
69,699 corpus weight
What this shows « pathétiques » 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 | pathétiques |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pa.te.tik\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #30,300 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pathétiques »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around pathétiques (IPA \pa.te.tik\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #30,300 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de pathétique.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for pathétiques, with forms such as "apthétiques", "pahtétiques", and "pathetiques". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "pathétique", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is pathétiques, spelled P-A-T-H-É-T-I-Q-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de pathétique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pathétiques appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le visage du professeur, d’ordinaire enflammé de couperose au premier verre d’alcool, avait viré au gris-mauve, mais, couronnés par la vaporeuse chevelure blanche et soulignés par l’épaisse barre des sourcils noirs en bataille, les traits semblaient singulièrement calmes encore qu’à chaque expiration, les lèvres craquelées se gonflassent pour à peine se d…
A Epinal, ce n’est pas sur les « Bancs publics, bancs publics » que les amoureux « s’bécotent, en s’disant des “Je t’aime” pathétiques », comme le chantait Brassens, mais sur les panneaux publics.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apthétiques
- pahtétiques
- pathetiques
- pathhétiques
- pathtéiques
- pathéitques
- pathétiqeus
- pathétiqques
- pathétiquess
- pathétiquse
- pathétiuqes
- pathétqiues
- pathéttiques
- patthétiques
- patéhtiques
- ppathétiques
- ptahétiques
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pathétiques - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "pathétiques", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).