pâture
\pa.tyʁ\
The verdict
“pâture” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,495. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,495
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nourriture des bêtes, des oiseaux, des poissons.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pature · pâture · French
pâture · rank #29,495 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,495
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH puéril
Nearest frequency peer: puéril (-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 « pâture »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- prévoyez
prévoyez
70,508 corpus weight
- puéril
puéril
70,507 corpus weight
- pâture
pâture
70,506 corpus weight
- péjoratif
péjoratif
70,505 corpus weight
- queer
queer
70,504 corpus weight
- questionnem…
questionnements
70,503 corpus weight
What this shows « pâture » 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 | pâture |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.tyʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #29,495 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pâture »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around pâture (IPA \pa.tyʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,495 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for pâture, with forms such as "pature", "ppâture", and "ptâure". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pure", "pause", "paume", 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 its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is pâture, spelled P-Â-T-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Nourriture des bêtes, des oiseaux, des poissons.
- 2Lieu où croît la nourriture des animaux qui paissent.
- 3Action de faire pâturer.
- 4Nourriture.
- 5Ce qui nourrit, ce qui rapporte, ce qui apporte quelque chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pâture appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] la plus grande partie des richesses domestiques des propriétaires saxons se composait de nombreux troupeaux de porcs, et cela surtout dans le voisinage des forêts, où ces animaux trouvaient aisément leur pâture.
Derrière lui, notre bateau laissait un sillage écumeux au milieu de l’eau jaune, sur laquelle flottaient des débris de toutes sortes, des planches, des bouts de bois, des cadavres d’animaux tout ballonnés, des bouchons, des herbes ; de temps en temps un oiseau aux grandes ailes s’abattait sur ces épaves, puis aussitôt il se relevait, pour s’envoler avec u…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- pature
- ppâture
- ptâure
- pâtrue
- pâtture
- pâtuer
- pâturre
- pâutre
- âpture
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pâture - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).