patinage artistique
\pa.ti.na.ʒ‿aʁ.tis.tik\
The verdict
“patinage artistique” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sport qui consiste à patiner de façon élégante et artistique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-patinage-artistique · patinage artistique · French
patinage artistique · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 19 letters
- VOW-9 9 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | patinage artistique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.ti.na.ʒ‿aʁ.tis.tik\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « patinage artistique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
patinage artistique is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.ti.na.ʒ‿aʁ.tis.tik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for patinage artistique, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 patinage artistique, spelled P-A-T-I-N-A-G-E- -A-R-T-I-S-T-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Sport qui consiste à patiner de façon élégante et artistique.
- 2Comportement qui consiste à éviter plus ou moins habilement un sujet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how patinage artistique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De son côté, Manon Massé multipliait les faux-fuyants et le patinage artistique verbal pour ne jamais prendre position devant ses militants, dans ce qu'un blogueur du Huffington Post, José Soucy, a très justement appelé le « degré zéro du leadership ».
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.