patricien
\pa.tʁi.sjɛ̃\
The verdict
“patricien” is uncommon French (frequency #63,986 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,986
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à la noblesse romaine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-patricien · patricien · French
patricien · rank #63,986 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,986
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH peiner
Nearest frequency peer: peiner (+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 « patricien »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- parodier
parodier
36,019 corpus weight
- patauger
patauger
36,017 corpus weight
- patricien
patricien
36,015 corpus weight
- peiner
peiner
36,014 corpus weight
- Pembroke
Pembroke
36,013 corpus weight
- Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
36,012 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « patricien » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | patricien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pa.tʁi.sjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #63,986 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « patricien » en français
Rare enough to double-check
patricien is uncommon French at frequency #63,986 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pa.tʁi.sjɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for patricien, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is patricien, spelled P-A-T-R-I-C-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Relatif à la noblesse romaine.
- 2Noble, aristocratique, quelle que soit la culture ou l’époque.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how patricien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Peu à peu, le despote ne respectant plus les prétendus droits de ses covainqueurs , ceux-ci se révolteront, le chasseront et proclameront le despotisme collectif, c'est-à-dire une république patricienne, dans laquelle quelques familles gouverneront.
Le ressentiment de l’orgueil patricien a fait peser sur sa mort comme sur sa vie un implacable silence.
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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