patronal
\pa.tʁɔ.nal\
The verdict
“patronal” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,913. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #40,913
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif au patron, au saint du lieu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-patronal · patronal · French
patronal · rank #40,913 · 12 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #40,913
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH patriarches
Nearest frequency peer: patriarches (-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 « patronal »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- parieurs
parieurs
59,092 corpus weight
- passionnant…
passionnantes
59,091 corpus weight
- patriarches
patriarches
59,089 corpus weight
- patronal
patronal
59,088 corpus weight
- pcs
pcs
59,087 corpus weight
- peinard
peinard
59,086 corpus weight
What this shows « patronal » 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 | patronal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pa.tʁɔ.nal\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #40,913 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « patronal »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around patronal (IPA \pa.tʁɔ.nal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #40,913 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for patronal, with forms such as "aptronal", "partonal", and "patornal". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "patrons", "patronat", "patronale", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is patronal, spelled P-A-T-R-O-N-A-L.
Definition
- 1Relatif au patron, au saint du lieu.
- 2Qui est entrepris, qui est dirigé par un patron, par des patrons d’industrie, de commerce, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how patronal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je me retrouvai à Loisy au moment de la fête patronale.
Œuvres patronales.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aptronal
- partonal
- patornal
- patrnoal
- patroanl
- patronall
- patronla
- patronnal
- patrronal
- pattronal
- ppatronal
- ptaronal
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of patronal - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "patronal", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).