patro
\pa.tʁo\
The verdict
“patro” is uncommon French (frequency #69,299 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,299
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Patronage, mouvement de jeunesse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-patro · patro · French
patro · rank #69,299 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,299
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH partys
Nearest frequency peer: partys (-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 « patro »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- partions
partions
30,704 corpus weight
- partys
partys
30,703 corpus weight
- patro
patro
30,702 corpus weight
- payerais
payerais
30,701 corpus weight
- payment
payment
30,700 corpus weight
- PDV
PDV
30,699 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « patro » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | patro |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.tʁo\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #69,299 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « patro » en français
Rare enough to double-check
patro is uncommon French at frequency #69,299 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.tʁo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Patronage, mouvement de jeunesse.".
patro doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is patro, spelled P-A-T-R-O.
Definition
- 1Patronage, mouvement de jeunesse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how patro appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le samedi Kevin est envoyé au patro.
Quand j’étais dans les âges de la première communion, le jeudi après-midi, j’allais au patro des curés, rue de Brillet.
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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