patients
\pa.sjɑ̃\
The verdict
“patients” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,534. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,534
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de patient.
Corpus desk
Index FR-patients · patients · French
patients · rank #2,534 · 12 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,534
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH particuliers
Nearest frequency peer: particuliers (-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 « patients »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- olivier
olivier
97,470 corpus weight
- partenaire
partenaire
97,469 corpus weight
- particuliers
particuliers
97,468 corpus weight
- patients
patients
97,467 corpus weight
- performance
performance
97,466 corpus weight
- plainte
plainte
97,465 corpus weight
What this shows « patients » 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 | patients |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pa.sjɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #2,534 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « patients »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around patients (IPA \pa.sjɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #2,534 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de patient.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for patients, with forms such as "aptients", "paitents", and "pateints". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "patins", "paient", "païens", 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 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 patients, spelled P-A-T-I-E-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de patient.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how patients appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’autre obstacle à l’unification est le résultat des patients efforts tentés par le Royaume-Uni en vue de "décamerouniser" la population de la zone britannique par des mesures scolaires et administratives.
Tout se passe, pour reprendre le propos de Braque déjà cité, comme si les pinceaux avaient nettoyé cet espace, l’avaient désenduit de cette pellicule prosaïque qui le masque, pour révéler la poésie latente qui modestement attendait, se gardant pour l’amant obstiné dont les doigts patients ôteraient un à un ses voiles.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aptients
- paitents
- pateints
- patiennts
- patienst
- patientss
- patientts
- patietns
- patinets
- pattients
- ppatients
- ptaients
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of patients - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).