Patrick
\pa.tʁik\
The verdict
“Patrick” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,375. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,375
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-patrick · Patrick · French
Patrick · rank #2,375 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,375
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH orient
Nearest frequency peer: orient (-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 « Patrick »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- mini
mini
97,630 corpus weight
- méthodes
méthodes
97,629 corpus weight
- option
option
97,628 corpus weight
- orient
orient
97,627 corpus weight
- Patrick
Patrick
97,626 corpus weight
- policier
policier
97,624 corpus weight
What this shows « Patrick » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Patrick |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \pa.tʁik\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,375 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Patrick »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around Patrick (IPA \pa.tʁik\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #2,375 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom masculin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Patrick, with forms such as "aptrick", "partick", and "patirck". 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, "patrie", "Patriot", "patrice", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 Patrick, spelled P-A-T-R-I-C-K.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Patrick appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Felton et lui s’adressèrent en même temps à Patrick, le valet de chambre de confiance du duc.
Il avait compté sans Patrick O’Brady, médiocre Irlandais. Qu’une rencontre avec un aussi tranquille imbécile puisse être déterminante, comment l’imaginer ?… Et pourtant… Il sort souvent de ces rencontres-là quelque chose de nouveau, d’imprévisible qui, par la suite, semble complètement inexplicable. Tel fut Patrick O’Brady, de qui Carmine reçut une force…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aptrick
- partick
- patirck
- patrcik
- patricck
- patrickk
- patrikc
- patrrick
- pattrick
- ppatrick
- ptarick
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Patrick - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).