patronale

\pa.tʁɔ.nal\

/\pa.tʁɔ.nal\/ adj

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The verdict

“patronale” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,707. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#24,707
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de patronal.

Corpus desk

Index FR-patronale · patronale · French

patronale · rank #24,707 · 13 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #24,707
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH patrimoines

Nearest frequency peer: patrimoines (-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 « patronale »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « patronale » 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).

patronale vs patronat
78% similar
patronale vs patronyme
78% similar
patronale vs patronales
90% similar

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

Key facts for patronale
PropertyValue
Headwordpatronale
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\pa.tʁɔ.nal\
Letters9
Frequency rank#24,707
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « patronale »

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

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « patrimoines » (#24,706), « payeur » (#24,708), « passivité » (#24,705). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « patronale » est au #24,707. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around patronale (IPA \pa.tʁɔ.nal\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #24,707 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de patronal.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for patronale, with forms such as "aptronale", "partonale", and "patornale". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "patronat", "patronyme", "patronales", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is patronale, spelled P-A-T-R-O-N-A-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Féminin singulier de patronal.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aptronale
  • partonale
  • patornale
  • patrnoale
  • patroanle
  • patronael
  • patronalle
  • patronlae
  • patronnale
  • patrronale
  • pattronale
  • ppatronale
  • ptaronale

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of patronale - 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.

aptronale2partonale2patornale2patrnoale2patroanle2patronael2patronalle1patronlae2
Edit distance from "patronale"

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 "patronale"?
"patronale" is spelled P-A-T-R-O-N-A-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pa.tʁɔ.nal\.
What does "patronale" mean?
As an adjective, "patronale" means: Féminin singulier de patronal.
What words are commonly confused with "patronale"?
"patronale" is commonly confused with "patronat", "patronyme", "patronales". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "patronale"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "patronale" is \pa.tʁɔ.nal\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "patronale" come from?
"patronale" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

passivité#24,705passerais#24,704parvenait#24,703perfusion#24,712

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

pensionnat13 variantsparlerais13 variantspolygamie13 variantsnourrissant13 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list