passbook
"passbook" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“passbook” is uncommon English (frequency #88,691 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,691
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A customer's record of deposits and withdrawals from a savings account or current account at a bank, typically recorded in a small booklet. The bank keeps its own record, which is final in any disp...
Corpus desk
Index EN-passbook · passbook · English
passbook · rank #88,691 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,691
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH passant
Nearest frequency peer: passant (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “passbook”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- papoose
papoose
11,314 corpus weight
- Pasay
Pasay
11,312 corpus weight
- passant
passant
11,311 corpus weight
- passbook
passbook
11,310 corpus weight
- pastured
pastured
11,309 corpus weight
- Pataki
Pataki
11,308 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “passbook” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | passbook |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #88,691 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “passbook” in English
Rare enough to double-check
passbook is uncommon English at frequency #88,691 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for passbook in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From pass + book. The correct English form is passbook, spelled P-A-S-S-B-O-O-K.
Definition
- 1A customer's record of deposits and withdrawals from a savings account or current account at a bank, typically recorded in a small booklet. The bank keeps its own record, which is final in any dispute.
- 2A book that passes between a trader and a customer, used to record credit purchases.
- 3A kind of internal passport used during apartheid to limit the movements of citizens outside of their homelands or designated areas.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how passbook appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mr Campbell Swinston.—Supposing there were no stronger reason than that against the continuance of grocers' licences, could not that evil be very easily put an end to by making a single false entry in the passbook the ground for forfeiting the grocer's certificate?
Etymology
From pass + book.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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