patiner
\pa.ti.ne\
The verdict
“patiner” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,090. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,090
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Glisser sur la glace, sur un sol uni, avec des patins.
Corpus desk
Index FR-patiner · patiner · French
patiner · rank #36,090 · 10 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,090
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH patelin
Nearest frequency peer: patelin (-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 « patiner »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- parrainages
parrainages
63,914 corpus weight
- parsemée
parsemée
63,913 corpus weight
- patelin
patelin
63,912 corpus weight
- patiner
patiner
63,911 corpus weight
- patineuse
patineuse
63,910 corpus weight
- païenne
païenne
63,909 corpus weight
What this shows « patiner » 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 | patiner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pa.ti.ne\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #36,090 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « patiner »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around patiner (IPA \pa.ti.ne\), averb. Corpus frequency is #36,090 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for patiner, with forms such as "aptiner", "paitner", and "patienr". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "patins", "potier", "platine", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is patiner, spelled P-A-T-I-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Glisser sur la glace, sur un sol uni, avec des patins.
- 2Glisser sur le sol sans que les roues tournent ; ou ne pas avancer, alors que les roues tournent, en parlant d’un véhicule.
- 3Faire du patin (à roulettes).
- 4Glisser l’un par rapport à l’autre en parlant de pièces de friction.
- 5Ne pas progresser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how patiner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On patinait autour de lui. Des enfants, le col entouré de cache-nez écarlates, blancs, verts, bleus, glissaient et tournoyaient.
Le train s’ébranle en ce moment, les roues de la locomotive patinent sur le rail, puis la vitesse s’accélère…
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aptiner
- paitner
- patienr
- patinerr
- patinner
- patinre
- patnier
- pattiner
- ppatiner
- ptainer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of patiner - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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