passare

/[pasˈsaːre]/ verb

The verdict

“passare” is outside the top-ranked German vocabulary, used as a verb — the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency German
7
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: vorübergehen, vorbeigehen

Key facts for passare
PropertyValue
Headwordpassare
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[pasˈsaːre]
Letters7
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “passare” sits in German frequency

passare falls outside the top-100,000 ranked German words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for passare is 7 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pasˈsaːre]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 35 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for passare in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is passare, spelled P-A-S-S-A-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    vorübergehen, vorbeigehen
  2. 2
    vorbeigehen, vorübergehen
  3. 3
    vorbeigehen, vorübergehen
  4. 4
    vorbeifahren
  5. 5
    vorbeikommen
  6. 6
    vergehen, vorbeigehen
  7. 7
    durchkommen, hereinkommen
  8. 8
    durchgehen, durchpassen
  9. 9
    umziehen, verziehen
  10. 10
    überliefern, eingehen
  11. 11
    durchgehen
  12. 12
    versetzt werden
  13. 13
    aufsteigen, befördert werden
  14. 14
    verabschiedet werden
  15. 15
    passen, zuspielen, abgeben
  16. 16
    überschreiten, überqueren
  17. 17
    reichen, geben
  18. 18
    erteilen
  19. 19
    zukommen lassen
  20. 20
    weitergeben, weitersagen
  21. 21
    verbreiten
  22. 22
    zuspielen
  23. 23
    figurativ: überholen
  24. 24
    figurativ: überschreiten
  25. 25
    durchbohren
  26. 26
    passieren
  27. 27
    durchmachen, erleiden
  28. 28
    verbringen
  29. 29
    überstehen
  30. 30
    bestehen
  31. 31
    durchgehen lassen
  32. 32
    verabschieden
  33. 33
    billigen
  34. 34
    durchsehen, überfliegen
  35. 35
    verbinden

Synonyms

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "passare"?
"passare" is spelled P-A-S-S-A-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is [pasˈsaːre].
What does "passare" mean?
As a verb, "passare" means: vorübergehen, vorbeigehen
How do you pronounce "passare"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "passare" is [pasˈsaːre]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "passare" come from?
"passare" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Using “passare”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct German spelling is P-A-S-S-A-R-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as [pasˈsaːre] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
  • Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words

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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.