pâtissier
\pa.ti.sje\
The verdict
“pâtissier” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,739. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,739
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui fait de la pâtisserie ou qui tient commerce de pâtisserie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-patissier · pâtissier · French
pâtissier · rank #21,739 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,739
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH préférais
Nearest frequency peer: préférais (-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 « pâtissier »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- prospérer
prospérer
78,266 corpus weight
- préalables
préalables
78,265 corpus weight
- précoces
précoces
78,264 corpus weight
- préférais
préférais
78,263 corpus weight
- pâtissier
pâtissier
78,262 corpus weight
- pâturages
pâturages
78,261 corpus weight
What this shows « pâtissier » 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 | pâtissier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.ti.sje\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #21,739 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pâtissier »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around pâtissier (IPA \pa.ti.sje\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,739 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Celui qui fait de la pâtisserie ou qui tient commerce de pâtisserie.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for pâtissier, with forms such as "patissier", "ppâtissier", and "ptâissier". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "pâtissière", "pâtissiers", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is pâtissier, spelled P-Â-T-I-S-S-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui fait de la pâtisserie ou qui tient commerce de pâtisserie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pâtissier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les pâtissiers obtiennent de la sorte en 1606 un arrêt du Parlement interdisant à Hélène Baltazard, fille de pâtissier mais mariée, de « faire et débiter des saucisses appelées godiveaux à peine de confiscation desdites marchandises et de vingt livres parisis d’amende».
Christophe Michalak — encore un pâtissier canon ! — conseille de saupoudrer le tiramisu de sucre glace avant de le recouvrir de cacao ; la couche de sucre va absorber l’humidité de la crème, laissant le cacao impec…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- patissier
- ppâtissier
- ptâissier
- pâitssier
- pâtisier
- pâtisiser
- pâtisseir
- pâtissierr
- pâtissire
- pâtsisier
- pâttissier
- âptissier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pâtissier - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).