patience
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,174
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
patience is aFrenchnoun. It means: Vertu qui fait supporter les adversités, les douleurs, les injures, les incommodités, etc. Pronounced \pa.sjɑ̃s\. It ranks #4,174 in French word frequency. Often confused with patine and patient.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | patience |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.sjɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,174 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for patience is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.sjɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,174 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for patience, with forms such as "aptience", "paitence", and "pateince". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "patine", "patient", "potence", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 patience, spelled P-A-T-I-E-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Vertu qui fait supporter les adversités, les douleurs, les injures, les incommodités, etc.
- 2Tranquillité, calme, sang-froid avec lequel on attend ce qui tarde à venir ou à se faire.
- 3Constance, persévérance à faire une chose, à poursuivre un dessein, malgré la lenteur des progrès, les obstacles, les peines, les dégoûts.
- 4Jeu de cartes où un seul joueur participe.
- 5Planchette à rainure dont on se sert pour astiquer les boutons de métal sans toucher le tissus.
- 6Nom donné aux flammes qui entourent la salamandre héraldique dans les armoiries.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aptience,paitence,pateince,patiecne,patiencce,patienec,patiennce,patinece,pattience,ppatience,ptaience
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for patience
Misspelling Variants of "patience"
Frequency rank: #4,174 in French
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