patriarche
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#13,030
in French word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
patriarche is aFrenchnoun. It means: Nom donné à plusieurs personnages de l’Ancien Testament, ayant vécu fort longtemps et ayant connu une longue postérité. Pronounced \pa.tʁi.jaʁʃ\. Often confused with patriarches and patriarcat.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | patriarche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.tʁi.jaʁʃ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #13,030 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for patriarche is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.tʁi.jaʁʃ\. Corpus data places it at rank #13,030 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for patriarche, with forms such as "aptriarche", "partiarche", and "patirarche". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "patriarches", "patriarcat", "patriarcal", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is patriarche, spelled P-A-T-R-I-A-R-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nom donné à plusieurs personnages de l’Ancien Testament, ayant vécu fort longtemps et ayant connu une longue postérité.
- 2Vieillard qui vit au milieu d’une famille nombreuse.
- 3Titre de dignité donné à certains évêques métropolitains.
- 4Celui qui a institué certains ordres religieux, comme saint Basile, saint Benoît, etc.
- 5Homme qui détient sur son domaine ou sa famille un pouvoir absolu, qu’il exerce selon les principes du paternalisme.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aptriarche,partiarche,patirarche,patrairche,patriacrhe,patriarcche,patriarceh,patriarchhe,patriarhce,patriarrche,patrirache,patrriarche,pattriarche,ppatriarche,ptariarche
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for patriarche
Misspelling Variants of "patriarche"
Frequency rank: #13,030 in French
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