pato
\ˈpa.to\
The verdict
“pato” is uncommon French (frequency #75,988 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,988
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poêle au sens d’ustensile de cuisine, de crêpière
Corpus desk
Index FR-pato · pato · French
pato · rank #75,988 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,988
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pati
Nearest frequency peer: pati (-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 « pato »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- partagèrent
partagèrent
24,016 corpus weight
- partiez
partiez
24,015 corpus weight
- pati
pati
24,014 corpus weight
- pato
pato
24,013 corpus weight
- pavois
pavois
24,012 corpus weight
- pecho
pecho
24,011 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pato » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pato |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈpa.to\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #75,988 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pato » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pato is uncommon French at frequency #75,988 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈpa.to\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Poêle au sens d’ustensile de cuisine, de crêpière".
No misspelling variants are generated for pato in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 pato, spelled P-A-T-O.
Definition
- 1Poêle au sens d’ustensile de cuisine, de crêpière
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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