patte
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,206
in French word usage
Misspellings
4
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
patte is aFrenchnoun. It means: Membre d’un animal quadrupède, d’un oiseau (à l’exception des oiseaux de proie), des arthropodes comme l’écrevisse, le homard, l’araignée, la mouche, etc. Pronounced \pat\. Often confused with PTT and pote.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | patte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pat\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #10,206 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for patte is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pat\. Corpus data places it at rank #10,206 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 4 documented wrong-spelling variants for patte, with forms such as "aptte", "patet", and "ppatte". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PTT", "pote", "paye", 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 patte, spelled P-A-T-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Membre d’un animal quadrupède, d’un oiseau (à l’exception des oiseaux de proie), des arthropodes comme l’écrevisse, le homard, l’araignée, la mouche, etc.
- 2Main humaine.
- 3Jambe, pied humain.
- 4Se dit de la technique unique d’un artiste, du caractère de son œuvre.
- 5Instrument qui sert à régler du papier à musique, en traçant à la fois les cinq lignes parallèles qui forment une portée.
- 6Racine de certaines plantes, qui a quelque ressemblance avec la patte, la griffe d’un animal.
- 7Chacune des pièces triangulaire qui terminent à ses deux extrémités la partie courbe d’une ancre et qui la font mordre sur le fond.
- 8Morceau de fer pointu d’un bout, et plat de l’autre, qui, par le bout pointu, se fiche dans du bois ou se scelle dans du plâtre et, par l’autre bout, sert à fixer un lambris, un chambranle de porte, un châssis de croisée, etc.
- 9Bande pileuse sur la joue, juste devant les oreilles, conservée lors du rasage.
- 10Interface d'un routeur, généralement un port RJ45.
- 11Meuble représentant la patte d’un animal dans les armoiries. L’animal dont est extraite la patte doit être blasonné. À rapprocher de membre.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aptte,patet,ppatte,ptate
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for patte
Misspelling Variants of "patte"
Frequency rank: #10,206 in French
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