pâtre
\patʁ\
The verdict
“pâtre” is uncommon French (frequency #85,178 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,178
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui garde, qui fait paître des troupeaux de bœufs, de vaches, de chèvres, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-patre · pâtre · French
pâtre · rank #85,178 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,178
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pyramidales
Nearest frequency peer: pyramidales (-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 « pâtre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pup
pup
14,826 corpus weight
- putschiste
putschiste
14,825 corpus weight
- pyramidales
pyramidales
14,824 corpus weight
- pâtre
pâtre
14,823 corpus weight
- quaternaires
quaternaires
14,821 corpus weight
- quem
quem
14,820 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pâtre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pâtre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \patʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #85,178 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pâtre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pâtre is uncommon French at frequency #85,178 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \patʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celui qui garde, qui fait paître des troupeaux de bœufs, de vaches, de chèvres, etc.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for pâtre in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is pâtre, spelled P-Â-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1Celui qui garde, qui fait paître des troupeaux de bœufs, de vaches, de chèvres, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pâtre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tantôt j’aurais voulu être un de ces guerriers errant au milieu des vents, des nuages et des fantômes, tantôt j’enviais jusqu’au sort du pâtre que je voyais réchauffer ses mains à l’humble feu de broussailles qu’il avait allumé au coin d’un bois.
Cependant là où cet Anglais s’était tué, un pâtre, suivi de son troupeau de chèvres, courait à toutes jambes, sautant de rocher en rocher, […].
Synonyms
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.
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