pattern
\pa.tɛʁn\
The verdict
“pattern” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #39,446. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #39,446
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Motif graphique reproductible.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pattern · pattern · French
pattern · rank #39,446 · 9 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #39,446
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH patriarcal
Nearest frequency peer: patriarcal (-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 « pattern »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- parentalité
parentalité
60,558 corpus weight
- parvenaient
parvenaient
60,557 corpus weight
- patriarcal
patriarcal
60,556 corpus weight
- pattern
pattern
60,555 corpus weight
- paumés
paumés
60,554 corpus weight
- pavage
pavage
60,553 corpus weight
What this shows « pattern » 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 | pattern |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.tɛʁn\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #39,446 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pattern »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around pattern (IPA \pa.tɛʁn\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #39,446 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for pattern, with forms such as "apttern", "patern", and "patetrn". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "pattes", "potter", "patterns", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is pattern, spelled P-A-T-T-E-R-N.
Definition
- 1Motif graphique reproductible.
- 2Patron de conception.
- 3En regex, chaine de caractères contenant les expressions régulières.
- 4Motif rythmique de base.
- 5Suite logique, le plus souvent en parlant d’habitudes comportementales.
- 6Motif d’imprimé textile.
- 7Patron de conception d’un vêtement.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apttern
- patern
- patetrn
- pattenr
- patternn
- patterrn
- pattren
- ppattern
- ptatern
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pattern - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).