patte
\pat\
The verdict
“patte” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #10,206) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #10,206
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 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.
Corpus desk
Index FR-patte · patte · French
patte · rank #10,206 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,206
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Palestinien
Nearest frequency peer: Palestinien (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « patte »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- orientations
orientations
89,798 corpus weight
- Pablo
Pablo
89,797 corpus weight
- Palestinien
Palestinien
89,796 corpus weight
- patte
patte
89,795 corpus weight
- permets
permets
89,794 corpus weight
- pipi
pipi
89,793 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « patte » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | 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) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « patte »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for patte is neighbouring look-alikes ("PTT", "pote", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \pat\. Frequency #10,206 among 6,826 “P” headwords. 11 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for patte, with forms such as "aptte", "patet", and "ppatte". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "PTT", "pote", "paye", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is patte, spelled P-A-T-T-E.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how patte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La rainette, atteinte en plein flanc, écartait les pattes et ouvrait la gueule en montrant son goitre blanc.
Un chien qui donne la patte.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aptte
- patet
- ppatte
- ptate
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of patte - 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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).