patin
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#23,309
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
patin is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sorte de semelle fort épaisse que l’on porte pour faire certains travaux de ménage ou pour se préserver de l’humidité. Pronounced \pa.tɛ̃\. Often confused with pin and pti.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | patin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.tɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #23,309 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for patin is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.tɛ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #23,309 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for patin, with forms such as "aptin", "paitn", and "patinn". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pin", "pti", "petit", 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 patin, spelled P-A-T-I-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sorte de semelle fort épaisse que l’on porte pour faire certains travaux de ménage ou pour se préserver de l’humidité.
- 2Pantoufle.
- 3Objet plat, en feutre ou autre matière, de forme rectangulaire épousant ou non la forme d'un pied, utilisé pour se déplacer sur le parquet en gardant ses chaussures et en patinant pour avancer, afin d'éviter les rayures au sol.
- 4Tout type de chaussure qui permet de se déplacer en glissant.
- 5Coin de bois ou pièce en métal dont on se sert pour arrêter la roue d’une voiture.
- 6Frein.
- 7Pièce de bois posé de niveau sous la charpente d’un escalier, pour la porter et lui servir de base.
- 8Fer mis au pied d’un cheval, dans certains cas, pour le forcer à s’appuyer sur le pied opposé.
- 9Partie médiane d’un ski correspondant à l’emplacement où le skieur fixe son pied.
- 10Baiser lingual prolongé, pelle.
- 11Chaussure munie d’une épaisse semelle de bois.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aptin,paitn,patinn,patni,pattin,ppatin,ptain
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for patin
Misspelling Variants of "patin"
Frequency rank: #23,309 in French
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you spell "patin"?
What does "patin" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "patin"?
How do you pronounce "patin"?
What language does "patin" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter P in our French index: