patrocle
\pa.tʁɔkl\
The verdict
“patrocle” is uncommon French (frequency #68,535 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,535
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espèce de coquille univalve.
Corpus desk
Index FR-patrocle · patrocle · French
patrocle · rank #68,535 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,535
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH passoires
Nearest frequency peer: passoires (-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 « patrocle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- paperasserie
paperasserie
31,469 corpus weight
- parkway
parkway
31,468 corpus weight
- passoires
passoires
31,467 corpus weight
- patrocle
patrocle
31,466 corpus weight
- percevez
percevez
31,464 corpus weight
- perforés
perforés
31,463 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « patrocle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | patrocle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.tʁɔkl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,535 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « patrocle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
patrocle is uncommon French at frequency #68,535 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.tʁɔkl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Espèce de coquille univalve.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for patrocle, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is patrocle, spelled P-A-T-R-O-C-L-E.
Definition
- 1Espèce de coquille univalve.
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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