patrons

/\pa.tʁɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#5,798

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

13

similar word pairs

patrons is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pluriel de patron. Pronounced \pa.tʁɔ̃\. It ranks #5,798 in French word frequency. Often confused with payons and potions.

Key facts for patrons
PropertyValue
Headwordpatrons
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pa.tʁɔ̃\
Letters7
Frequency rank#5,798
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs13
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of patrons in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for patrons is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.tʁɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,798 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pluriel de patron.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for patrons, with forms such as "aptrons", "patorns", and "patrnos". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "payons", "potions", "patron", 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 patrons, spelled P-A-T-R-O-N-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de patron.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: aptrons,patorns,patrnos,patronns,patronss,patrosn,patrrons,pattrons,ppatrons,ptarons

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for patrons

Misspelling Variants of "patrons"

aptrons7patorns7patrnos7patronns8patronss8patrosn7patrrons8pattrons8
Misspelling Variants of "patrons"

Frequency rank: #5,798 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "patrons"?
"patrons" is spelled P-A-T-R-O-N-S. The IPA pronunciation is \pa.tʁɔ̃\.
What does "patrons" mean?
As a noun, "patrons" means: Pluriel de patron.
What words are commonly confused with "patrons"?
"patrons" is commonly confused with "payons", "potions", "patron". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "patrons"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "patrons" is \pa.tʁɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "patrons" come from?
"patrons" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.