patronage
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#19,625
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
patronage is aFrenchnoun. It means: Rapports de protection qui existaient à Rome entre les patrons et leurs clients. Protection qu’un homme puissant accorde à un homme d’une condition inférieure. Pronounced \pa.tʁɔ.naʒ\. Often confused with patronat and patronal.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | patronage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.tʁɔ.naʒ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #19,625 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for patronage is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.tʁɔ.naʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #19,625 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for patronage, with forms such as "aptronage", "partonage", and "patornage". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "patronat", "patronal", "patronale", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is patronage, spelled P-A-T-R-O-N-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Rapports de protection qui existaient à Rome entre les patrons et leurs clients. Protection qu’un homme puissant accorde à un homme d’une condition inférieure.
- 2Protection d’un saint-patron.
- 3Association qui donne protection et secours aux pauvres.
- 4Local où se réunissent les enfants ou adolescents qui en reçoivent le bénéfice de l’association.
- 5Droit qu’un prélat ou un seigneur laïque avait de nommer à un bénéfice ecclésiastique.
- 6Contrôle exercé par la puissance publique sur le clergé.
- 7Soutien moral explicite, parrainage apporté à une personne, une manifestation ou une organisation.
- 8Favoritisme du parti au pouvoir envers ses amis (donateurs, ex-députés, etc). De nos jours, dans le cas des faveurs aux donateurs, on dit plutôt retour d'ascenseur, quoique ce terme serve aussi dans d'autres contextes.
- 9(vers 1881) et/ou américain des États-Unis, sens similaire ou voisin au sens canadien, pratiqué avant et après 1881
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aptronage,partonage,patornage,patrnoage,patroange,patronaeg,patronagge,patrongae,patronnage,patrronage,pattronage,ppatronage,ptaronage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for patronage
Misspelling Variants of "patronage"
Frequency rank: #19,625 in French
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