paturon
\pa.ty.ʁɔ̃\
The verdict
“paturon” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partie du bas de la jambe d’un cheval, comprise entre le boulet et la couronne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-paturon · paturon · French
paturon · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paturon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.ty.ʁɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
paturon is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.ty.ʁɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for paturon, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 paturon, spelled P-A-T-U-R-O-N.
Definition
- 1Partie du bas de la jambe d’un cheval, comprise entre le boulet et la couronne.
- 2Pied (d’un être humain).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how paturon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les coursiers […] étaient de race sarrasine, arabes par conséquent, et leurs membres délicats, leurs petits paturons, […], contrastaient d’une manière visible avec ceux des chevaux puissants et aux membres trapus dont la race se cultivait en Flandre et en Normandie, ….
La route était si mauvaise que ses huit kilomètres exigèrent deux heures. Les chevaux enfonçaient jusqu’aux paturons dans la boue, et faisaient pour en sortir de brusques mouvements des hanches.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.