Patmos

\pat.mɔs\

/\pat.mɔs\/ name

The verdict

“Patmos” is uncommon French (frequency #87,011 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#87,011
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Île du Dodécanèse, en Grèce.

Corpus desk

Index FR-patmos · Patmos · French

Patmos · rank #87,011 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #87,011
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH pataugeoire

Nearest frequency peer: pataugeoire (-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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « Patmos »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Patmos » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Patmos
PropertyValue
HeadwordPatmos
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\pat.mɔs\
Letters6
Frequency rank#87,011
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Patmos » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Patmostombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « pataugeoire » (#87,010), « pavlova » (#87,012), « patatras » (#87,009). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « Patmos » est au #87,011. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Patmos is uncommon French at frequency #87,011 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \pat.mɔs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Île du Dodécanèse, en Grèce.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for Patmos in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 Patmos, spelled P-A-T-M-O-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Île du Dodécanèse, en Grèce.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Patmos appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. De son côté, et par autre traité du 10 août, l’Italie abandonne à la Grèce les îles du Dodécanèse, qu’elle occupe dans la mer Egée, c’est-à-dire Stampalia, Chalki et Alimnia, Scarpanto, Cassos, Episcopi, Nisyros, Calymnos, Léros, Patmos, Lipsos, Symi et Cos; et elle accepte de laisser la population de Rhodes se prononcer librement sur le sort de l’île, le…

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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Patmos"?
"Patmos" is spelled P-A-T-M-O-S. The IPA pronunciation is \pat.mɔs\.
What does "Patmos" mean?
As a proper noun, "Patmos" means: Île du Dodécanèse, en Grèce.
How do you pronounce "Patmos"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Patmos" is \pat.mɔs\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Patmos", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list