pâturage

\pɑ.ty.ʁaʒ\

/\pɑ.ty.ʁaʒ\/ noun

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The verdict

“pâturage” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,311. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#28,311
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lieu couvert d’herbe où les bestiaux pâturent.

Corpus desk

Index FR-paturage · pâturage · French

pâturage · rank #28,311 · 12 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #28,311
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH purple

Nearest frequency peer: purple (-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 « pâturage »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « pâturage » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

pâturage vs pâture
75% similar
pâturage vs pâturages
89% similar
pâturage vs patinage
63% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for pâturage
PropertyValue
Headwordpâturage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pɑ.ty.ʁaʒ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#28,311
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pâturage »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).pâturagese place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « purple » (#28,310), « pépins » (#28,312), « puent » (#28,309). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « pâturage » est au #28,311. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around pâturage (IPA \pɑ.ty.ʁaʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,311 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for pâturage, with forms such as "paturage", "ppâturage", and "ptâurage". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "pâture", "pâturages", "patinage", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is pâturage, spelled P-Â-T-U-R-A-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Lieu couvert d’herbe où les bestiaux pâturent.
  2. 2
    Droit de pâturage, Droit d’usage de ces lieux.
  3. 3
    Redevance perçue par le souverain pour accéder à ce droit d'usage.
  4. 4
    Action de faire pâturer les bestiaux.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Nous avions laissé au-dessous de nous, dans la montée du bois Magnuen, les hêtres et les sapins : les pâturages seuls poussaient à l’endroit où nous étions parvenus.
  2. Les pâturages, enclavés dans les bois de tous côtés, sauf au levant, où des haies vives érigeaient leurs épaisses barrières épineuses, restaient d’un vert dru malgré la chaleur torride de cette fin d’été.

Synonyms

pacage

This word in other languages

meadow(English)pradera(Español)Trift(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • paturage
  • ppâturage
  • ptâurage
  • pâtruage
  • pâtturage
  • pâtuarge
  • pâturaeg
  • pâturagge
  • pâturgae
  • pâturrage
  • pâutrage
  • âpturage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pâturage - 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.

paturage1ppâturage1ptâurage2pâtruage2pâtturage1pâtuarge2pâturaeg2pâturagge1
Edit distance from "pâturage"

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 "pâturage"?
"pâturage" is spelled P-Â-T-U-R-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pɑ.ty.ʁaʒ\.
What does "pâturage" mean?
As a noun, "pâturage" means: Lieu couvert d’herbe où les bestiaux pâturent.
What words are commonly confused with "pâturage"?
"pâturage" is commonly confused with "pâture", "pâturages", "patinage". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "pâturage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pâturage" is \pɑ.ty.ʁaʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pâturage" come from?
"pâturage" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

refusera#28,323remontés#28,326plongent#28,294pleuvait#28,293

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

perverse12 variantspersonal12 variantsréclamée12 variantsparviens12 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list