Patry

name

The verdict

“Patry” is uncommon French (frequency #64,675 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#64,675
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.

Corpus desk

Index FR-patry · Patry · French

Patry · rank #64,675 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #64,675
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH pastoraux

Nearest frequency peer: pastoraux (-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 « Patry »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Patry » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Patry
PropertyValue
HeadwordPatry
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters5
Frequency rank#64,675
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Patry » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).Patrytombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « pastoraux » (#64,674), « Parly » (#64,673), « peigner » (#64,677). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « Patry » est au #64,675. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Patry is uncommon French at frequency #64,675 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".

Patry has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Patry, spelled P-A-T-R-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Patry appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Les prestations honnêtes du pointu Stephen Boyer (15 points, 14/27 en attaque), remplacé dans le dernier set par Jean Patry, et de Kevin Tillie (13 points, 13/28), n’ont pas suffi quand les Bleus multipliaient, une fois encore, les erreurs au service (21 en tout).

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 "Patry"?
"Patry" is spelled P-A-T-R-Y.
What does "Patry" mean?
As a proper noun, "Patry" means: Nom de famille.
What language does "Patry" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list