passbook
"passbook" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“passbook” is uncommon English (frequency #88,691 among 46,516 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,691
- frequency rank, English
- 46,516
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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...
| 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) |
Where “passbook” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
passbook is uncommon English at frequency #88,691 among 46,516 “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.
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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Using “passbook”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-A-S-S-B-O-O-K - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.