patrouiller
\pa.tʁu.je\
The verdict
“patrouiller” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,511. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,511
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire une patrouille ; aller en patrouille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-patrouiller · patrouiller · French
patrouiller · rank #42,511 · 14 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,511
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pastiche
Nearest frequency peer: pastiche (-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 « patrouiller »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- parloir
parloir
57,493 corpus weight
- parra
parra
57,492 corpus weight
- pastiche
pastiche
57,491 corpus weight
- patrouiller
patrouiller
57,490 corpus weight
- penderie
penderie
57,488 corpus weight
- peng
peng
57,487 corpus weight
What this shows « patrouiller » 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 | patrouiller |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pa.tʁu.je\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #42,511 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « patrouiller »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around patrouiller (IPA \pa.tʁu.je\), averb. Corpus frequency is #42,511 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for patrouiller, with forms such as "aptrouiller", "partouiller", and "patoruiller". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "patrouilles", "patrouilleur", "patrouilleurs", 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. The correct French form is patrouiller, spelled P-A-T-R-O-U-I-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire une patrouille ; aller en patrouille.
- 2Surveiller en établissant des patrouilles.
- 3Contrôler les nouvelles contributions afin de contrer tout vandalisme et éventuellement les wikifier et les corriger si besoin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how patrouiller appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Par la belle route en pente douce qui longe sous d’épais ombrages le « ru » de Toury, les uhlans descendaient vers Talus-Saint-Prix, patrouillaient le village, puis se glissaient vers le pont du Petit-Morin qu’ils franchissaient librement : […].
Il ne répugne pas non plus accueillir les policiers qui, la nuit, patrouillent dans le quartier, et à leur signaler tel individu louche qu'il a vu zoner dans le coin. Ce type de services rendus à la police nationale sont naturellement gratuits, mais à charge de revanche.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aptrouiller
- partouiller
- patoruiller
- patroiuller
- patrouilelr
- patrouiler
- patrouillerr
- patrouillre
- patrouliler
- patrrouiller
- patruoiller
- pattrouiller
- ppatrouiller
- ptarouiller
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of patrouiller - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).