patience

\pa.sjɑ̃s\

/\pa.sjɑ̃s\/ noun

By · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) ·

The verdict

“patience” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,174. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#4,174
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
8
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vertu qui fait supporter les adversités, les douleurs, les injures, les incommodités, etc.

Corpus desk

Index FR-patience · patience · French

patience · rank #4,174 · 11 variants · 8 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #4,174
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH park

Nearest frequency peer: park (-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 « patience »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « patience » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

patience vs patine
75% similar
patience vs patient
75% similar
patience vs potence
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for patience
PropertyValue
Headwordpatience
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pa.sjɑ̃s\
Letters8
Frequency rank#4,174
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « patience »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).patiencese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « park » (#4,173), « piano » (#4,175), « parent » (#4,172). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « patience » est au #4,174. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around patience (IPA \pa.sjɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,174 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for patience, with forms such as "aptience", "paitence", and "pateince". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "patine", "patient", "potence", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is patience, spelled P-A-T-I-E-N-C-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Vertu qui fait supporter les adversités, les douleurs, les injures, les incommodités, etc.
  2. 2
    Tranquillité, calme, sang-froid avec lequel on attend ce qui tarde à venir ou à se faire.
  3. 3
    Constance, persévérance à faire une chose, à poursuivre un dessein, malgré la lenteur des progrès, les obstacles, les peines, les dégoûts.
  4. 4
    Jeu de cartes où un seul joueur participe.
  5. 5
    Planchette à rainure dont on se sert pour astiquer les boutons de métal sans toucher le tissus.
  6. 6
    Nom donné aux flammes qui entourent la salamandre héraldique dans les armoiries.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how patience appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Hélas ! il n’y a plus de paradis sur la terre. Ce lieu était peuplé de maringoins, que le bon Dieu a créés, je pense, pour exercer la patience des mortels […] ils ne nous laissèrent pas un moment de repos.
  2. La patience est la principale vertu réclamée à l’explorateur polaire, dit Nansen, mais la prévoyance est la seconde.

Synonyms

constancepersévéranceréussite

This word in other languages

patience(English)paciencia(Español)Geduld(Deutsch)paciência(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aptience
  • paitence
  • pateince
  • patiecne
  • patiencce
  • patienec
  • patiennce
  • patinece
  • pattience
  • ppatience
  • ptaience

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of patience - 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.

aptience2paitence2pateince2patiecne2patiencce1patienec2patiennce1patinece2
Edit distance from "patience"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "patience"?
"patience" is spelled P-A-T-I-E-N-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pa.sjɑ̃s\.
What does "patience" mean?
As a noun, "patience" means: Vertu qui fait supporter les adversités, les douleurs, les injures, les incommodités, etc.
What words are commonly confused with "patience"?
"patience" is commonly confused with "patine", "patient", "potence". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "patience"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "patience" is \pa.sjɑ̃s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "patience" come from?
"patience" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Yes, PlainSpell is a completely free word reference. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, confusable pairs, homophones, and spelling corrections across 5 languages without any sign-up or subscription.

Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "patience", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

opinions#4,170quarante#4,178napoléon#4,166libéraux#4,160

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

publiés11 variantsrestant11 variantsscrutin11 variantsuniforme11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list