patient
\pa.sjɑ̃\
The verdict
“patient” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,027. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,027
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui attend et qui persévère avec tranquillité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-patient · patient · French
patient · rank #3,027 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,027
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH olympique
Nearest frequency peer: olympique (-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 « patient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- médicaments
médicaments
96,977 corpus weight
- occupé
occupé
96,976 corpus weight
- olympique
olympique
96,975 corpus weight
- patient
patient
96,974 corpus weight
- paye
paye
96,973 corpus weight
- pensées
pensées
96,972 corpus weight
What this shows « patient » 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 | patient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pa.sjɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,027 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « patient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around patient (IPA \pa.sjɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #3,027 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for patient, with forms such as "aptient", "paitent", and "pateint". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "patin", "payent", "patins", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is patient, spelled P-A-T-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui attend et qui persévère avec tranquillité.
- 2Qui supporte, qui tolère avec bonté, avec douceur les défauts, les importunités d’autrui.
- 3Qui reçoit l’impression d’un agent physique.
- 4Qui souffre avec modération et sans murmurer les adversités, les injures, les mauvais traitements, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how patient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Apprends à être modeste et patient et à t’humilier. Si ton jour te semble plus long que celui de l’éphémère, pour moi, qui n’ai ni commencement ni fin, ce n’en est pas moins qu’un instant.
Et ce fut par cette invariable réponse qu’il accueillit toutes les parlementaires juponnées que, patiente et persévérante, sa femme persistait à lui dépêcher d’heure en heure sous des prétextes, semblait-il, de plus en plus urgents.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aptient
- paitent
- pateint
- patiennt
- patientt
- patietn
- patinet
- pattient
- ppatient
- ptaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of patient - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).