Passus
[ˈpasʊs]
The verdict
“Passus” has 8 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #35,375. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,375
- frequency rank, German
- 3,409
- “P” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - relativ kurzer Abschnitt eines laufenden Textes
Corpus desk
Index DE-passus · Passus · German
Passus · rank #35,375 · 8 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,375
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,409
- PHOTO-FINISH Parasit
Nearest frequency peer: Parasit (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Passus“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- outen
outen
64,632 corpus weight
- Panthers
Panthers
64,628 corpus weight
- Parasit
Parasit
64,627 corpus weight
- Passus
Passus
64,626 corpus weight
- pelle
pelle
64,624 corpus weight
- pesto
pesto
64,621 corpus weight
What this shows „Passus“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
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 | Passus |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈpasʊs] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #35,375 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Passus“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Passus (IPA [ˈpasʊs]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #35,375 among 3,409 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "relativ kurzer Abschnitt eines laufenden Textes".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Passus, with forms such as "apssus", "passsu", and "passuss". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "Paulus", "Pass", "passt", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Passus, spelled P-A-S-S-U-S.
Definition
- 1relativ kurzer Abschnitt eines laufenden Textes
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Passus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Am Vorabend eines erneuten Protesttages gegen die Rentenreform verabschiedete der französische Senat einen besonders umstrittenen Passus des Gesetzes.“
„Dieser Passus erklärt ganz beiläufig, warum herausragende Kritik auf dem Feld der Kunst ebenso selten ist wie herausragende Werke – und warum beides im Grunde derselben Kategorie angehört.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apssus
- passsu
- passuss
- pasus
- pasuss
- paßus
- ppassus
- psasus
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Passus - 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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Passus", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).