pati
\pa.ti\
The verdict
“pati” is uncommon French (frequency #75,987 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,987
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de patti.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pati · pati · French
pati · rank #75,987 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,987
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH partiez
Nearest frequency peer: partiez (-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 « pati »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- partagerais
partagerais
24,017 corpus weight
- partagèrent
partagèrent
24,016 corpus weight
- partiez
partiez
24,015 corpus weight
- pati
pati
24,014 corpus weight
- pato
pato
24,013 corpus weight
- pavois
pavois
24,012 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pati » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pati |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.ti\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #75,987 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pati » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pati is uncommon French at frequency #75,987 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.ti\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pati, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is pati, spelled P-A-T-I.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de patti.
- 2Ramasseur de peaux de lapin. On dit aussi patère.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pati appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand je refuse, elle me dit que le pati (chiffonnier) va venir me chercher et en effet, une minute après, ça tape à la porte, un monsieur emmitouflé dans une couverture et chargé d’un grand sac à l’épaule déclare : - On m’a dit qu’il y avait une petite fille à emmener.
… criant de sa grosse voix : "C'est le pati ! Peaux de lapin ! Pati ! Peaux de lapin !
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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