patrimoine

\pa.tʁi.mwan\

/\pa.tʁi.mwan\/ noun

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The verdict

“patrimoine” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,781. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#1,781
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Biens qu’une personne a hérité de son père ou de sa mère. Se dit en particulier pour les distinguer des acquêts.

Corpus desk

Index FR-patrimoine · patrimoine · French

patrimoine · rank #1,781 · 14 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-COMMON #1,781
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH obligé

Nearest frequency peer: obligé (-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 « patrimoine »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « patrimoine » 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).

patrimoine vs patrimoines
91% similar

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

Key facts for patrimoine
PropertyValue
Headwordpatrimoine
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pa.tʁi.mwan\
Letters10
Frequency rank#1,781
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « patrimoine »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.patrimoinese place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « obligé » (#1,780), « pensez » (#1,782), « mondial » (#1,779). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « patrimoine » est au #1,781. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around patrimoine (IPA \pa.tʁi.mwan\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,781 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for patrimoine, with forms such as "aptrimoine", "partimoine", and "patirmoine". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "patrimoines", 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 its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is patrimoine, spelled P-A-T-R-I-M-O-I-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Biens qu’une personne a hérité de son père ou de sa mère. Se dit en particulier pour les distinguer des acquêts.
  2. 2
    Bien transmis commun à une société, une communauté.
  3. 3
    Ensemble de droits, d'obligations et de biens possédés par un individu.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Dans le même souci de protection du lignage, le père pouvait cependant, s’il se méfiait de ses enfants, les obliger à conserver le patrimoine pour leurs propres enfants : c’est la substitution si répandue dans notre ancien régime […]
  2. Afin de souligner l’indigence des moyens matériels de la Mairie on notera que l’essentiel de ses biens mobiliers devant être introduits dans son patrimoine se résume à 2 camions bennes, un camion citerne vidangeur et 1 citerne à eau acquis en 1997 ; […].

Synonyms

fortunepropres

This word in other languages

patrimony(English)Erbe(Deutsch)patrimônio(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aptrimoine
  • partimoine
  • patirmoine
  • patrimione
  • patrimmoine
  • patrimoien
  • patrimoinne
  • patrimonie
  • patriomine
  • patrmioine
  • patrrimoine
  • pattrimoine
  • ppatrimoine
  • ptarimoine

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of patrimoine - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

aptrimoine2partimoine2patirmoine2patrimione2patrimmoine1patrimoien2patrimoinne1patrimonie2
Edit distance from "patrimoine"

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 "patrimoine"?
"patrimoine" is spelled P-A-T-R-I-M-O-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pa.tʁi.mwan\.
What does "patrimoine" mean?
As a noun, "patrimoine" means: Biens qu’une personne a hérité de son père ou de sa mère. Se dit en particulier pour les distinguer des acquêts.
What words are commonly confused with "patrimoine"?
"patrimoine" is commonly confused with "patrimoines". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "patrimoine"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "patrimoine" is \pa.tʁi.mwan\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "patrimoine" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

justement14 variantsfortement14 variantsévénement14 variantspermettant14 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list