pathos
\pa.tɔs\
The verdict
“pathos” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,968. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,968
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chaleur, emphase affectée, confuse et vaine dans un discours, dans un ouvrage littéraire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pathos · pathos · French
pathos · rank #38,968 · 9 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,968
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pastille
Nearest frequency peer: pastille (-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 « pathos »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- parrainer
parrainer
61,037 corpus weight
- partirait
partirait
61,036 corpus weight
- parures
parures
61,035 corpus weight
- pastille
pastille
61,034 corpus weight
- pathos
pathos
61,033 corpus weight
- Patti
Patti
61,032 corpus weight
What this shows « pathos » 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 | pathos |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.tɔs\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #38,968 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pathos »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around pathos (IPA \pa.tɔs\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,968 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Chaleur, emphase affectée, confuse et vaine dans un discours, dans un ouvrage littéraire.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for pathos, with forms such as "apthos", "pahtos", and "pathhos". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "patron", "pattes", "python", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is pathos, spelled P-A-T-H-O-S.
Definition
- 1Chaleur, emphase affectée, confuse et vaine dans un discours, dans un ouvrage littéraire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pathos appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Modeste m’a dit que tout ce pathos venait du traducteur et qu’il fallait lire l’anglais. Mais, je n’irai pas apprendre l’anglais pour lord Byron.
Au milieu du pathos prétentieux qui a envahi, de nos jours, l’apologétique chrétienne, s’est conservée une école de solide doctrine, répudiant l’éclat, abhorrant le succès.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apthos
- pahtos
- pathhos
- pathoss
- pathso
- patohs
- patthos
- ppathos
- ptahos
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pathos - 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
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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).