patinage
\pa.ti.naʒ\
The verdict
“patinage” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,709. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,709
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sport qui consiste à glisser avec des patins sur la glace, sur un sol uni.
Corpus desk
Index FR-patinage · patinage · French
patinage · rank #15,709 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,709
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pastorale
Nearest frequency peer: pastorale (-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 « patinage »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- partiels
partiels
84,295 corpus weight
- parvenue
parvenue
84,294 corpus weight
- pastorale
pastorale
84,293 corpus weight
- patinage
patinage
84,292 corpus weight
- patinoire
patinoire
84,291 corpus weight
- pb
pb
84,290 corpus weight
What this shows « patinage » 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 | patinage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.ti.naʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #15,709 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « patinage »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around patinage (IPA \pa.ti.naʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #15,709 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for patinage, with forms such as "aptinage", "paitnage", and "patiange". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "patine", "pâturage", "patronage", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is patinage, spelled P-A-T-I-N-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Sport qui consiste à glisser avec des patins sur la glace, sur un sol uni.
- 2Perte de traction de la part des roues d’un véhicule motorisé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how patinage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Club de patinage de Pointe-Claire célèbre son 60e anniversaire cette saison.
Marche, randonnée en raquettes, ski de fond, ski alpin, planche à neige et patinage, les choix ne manquent pas parmi les sports hivernaux, rappelle le Dr De Garie, qui est médecin de famille en plus de suivre des athlètes à l’Institut national des sports du Québec.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aptinage
- paitnage
- patiange
- patinaeg
- patinagge
- patingae
- patinnage
- patniage
- pattinage
- ppatinage
- ptainage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of patinage - 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
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