pâtisson
French, noun/pa.ti.sɔ̃/
pâtisson is spelled P-Â-T-I-S-S-O-N (8 letters) and appears about once in every 85 million words in written French, the 288,492nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pâtisson is a French masculine noun meaning “pattypan squash” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Nom usuel de Cucurbita pepo var. clypeata, plante de la famille des Cucurbitacées (Cucurbitaceae)”.
What does pâtisson mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepattypan squash
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Nom usuel de Cucurbita pepo var. clypeata, plante de la famille des Cucurbitacées (Cucurbitaceae). 2. Fruit comestible de cette plante, se présentant sous forme d’un disque renflé en son centre avec des bord dentelés.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of pâtisson
- pâtissons plural
- patisson
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pâtisson?
- /pa.ti.sɔ̃/
- /pɑ.ti.sɔ̃/
- \pa.ti.sɔ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is pâtisson in French?
pâtisson appears about once in every 85 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).