patriarche

\pa.tʁi.jaʁʃ\

/\pa.tʁi.jaʁʃ\/ noun

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The verdict

“patriarche” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,030. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#13,030
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
15
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom donné à plusieurs personnages de l’Ancien Testament, ayant vécu fort longtemps et ayant connu une longue postérité.

Corpus desk

Index FR-patriarche · patriarche · French

patriarche · rank #13,030 · 15 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #13,030
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 15 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH patienter

Nearest frequency peer: patienter (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « patriarche »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « patriarche » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

patriarche vs patriarches
91% similar
patriarche vs patriarcat
80% similar
patriarche vs patriarcal
80% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for patriarche
PropertyValue
Headwordpatriarche
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pa.tʁi.jaʁʃ\
Letters10
Frequency rank#13,030
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « patriarche »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).patriarchese place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « patienter » (#13,029), « perdez » (#13,031), « parisiennes » (#13,028). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « patriarche » est au #13,030. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 15 spelling variants around patriarche (IPA \pa.tʁi.jaʁʃ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,030 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for patriarche, with forms such as "aptriarche", "partiarche", and "patirarche". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. 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 documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is patriarche, spelled P-A-T-R-I-A-R-C-H-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom donné à plusieurs personnages de l’Ancien Testament, ayant vécu fort longtemps et ayant connu une longue postérité.
  2. 2
    Vieillard qui vit au milieu d’une famille nombreuse.
  3. 3
    Titre de dignité donné à certains évêques métropolitains.
  4. 4
    Celui qui a institué certains ordres religieux, comme saint Basile, saint Benoît, etc.
  5. 5
    Homme qui détient sur son domaine ou sa famille un pouvoir absolu, qu’il exerce selon les principes du paternalisme.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Les prophètes et les patriarches, ces saints de la vieille loi, et qui n'ont connu la vérité qu’imparfaitement et à travers des métaphores, ont le nimbe en argent.
  2. Un apologue juif, où les effets du vin sont exprimés à la manière orientale, nous apprend que le patriarche Noé s’étant éloigné un moment du premier pied de vigne qu’il venait de planter, Satan transporté de joie s’en approcha , en s’écriant : Chère plante, je veux t’arroser ! […].

Synonyms

père

This word in other languages

patriarch(English)patriarca(Español)patriarca(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aptriarche
  • partiarche
  • patirarche
  • patrairche
  • patriacrhe
  • patriarcche
  • patriarceh
  • patriarchhe
  • patriarhce
  • patriarrche
  • patrirache
  • patrriarche
  • pattriarche
  • ppatriarche
  • ptariarche

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of patriarche - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

aptriarche2partiarche2patirarche2patrairche2patriacrhe2patriarcche1patriarceh2patriarchhe1
Edit distance from "patriarche"

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 "patriarche"?
"patriarche" is spelled P-A-T-R-I-A-R-C-H-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pa.tʁi.jaʁʃ\.
What does "patriarche" mean?
As a noun, "patriarche" means: Nom donné à plusieurs personnages de l’Ancien Testament, ayant vécu fort longtemps et ayant connu une longue postérité.
What words are commonly confused with "patriarche"?
"patriarche" is commonly confused with "patriarches", "patriarcat", "patriarcal". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "patriarche"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "patriarche" is \pa.tʁi.jaʁʃ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "patriarche" come from?
"patriarche" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

planétaire#13,033rendements#13,047moustiques#13,011régulateur#13,055

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).

sémantique15 variantsvibrations15 variantsfavorisant15 variantsajustement15 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list