patronus
The verdict
“patronus” is uncommon French (frequency #81,427 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,427
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Patron protecteur des plébéiens, défenseur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-patronus · patronus · French
patronus · rank #81,427 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,427
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Patrizia
Nearest frequency peer: Patrizia (-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 « patronus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Parisi
Parisi
18,578 corpus weight
- Patrizia
Patrizia
18,575 corpus weight
- patronus
patronus
18,574 corpus weight
- pav
pav
18,573 corpus weight
- pegi
pegi
18,571 corpus weight
- percutent
percutent
18,569 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « patronus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | patronus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #81,427 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « patronus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
patronus is uncommon French at frequency #81,427 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Patron protecteur des plébéiens, défenseur.".
No misspelling variants are generated for patronus in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is patronus, spelled P-A-T-R-O-N-U-S.
Definition
- 1Patron protecteur des plébéiens, défenseur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how patronus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
vestrorum commodorum patronus
patronus justiciae
Antonyms
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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