patronymes
\pat.ʁɔ.nim\
The verdict
“patronymes” is uncommon French (frequency #62,513 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,513
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de patronyme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-patronymes · patronymes · French
patronymes · rank #62,513 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,513
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH patrol
Nearest frequency peer: patrol (-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 « patronymes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- paquetage
paquetage
37,491 corpus weight
- parlantes
parlantes
37,490 corpus weight
- patrol
patrol
37,489 corpus weight
- patronymes
patronymes
37,488 corpus weight
- payerait
payerait
37,487 corpus weight
- perco
perco
37,485 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « patronymes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | patronymes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pat.ʁɔ.nim\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #62,513 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « patronymes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
patronymes is uncommon French at frequency #62,513 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pat.ʁɔ.nim\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de patronyme.".
patronymes doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is patronymes, spelled P-A-T-R-O-N-Y-M-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de patronyme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how patronymes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La plupart des patronymes se répétaient et se ressemblaient, à croire que ces gens vivaient tous en cousinage. Mais ce n'était qu'un faux-semblant, le postier de Péronville l'avait bien avertie là-dessus.
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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