passenger
pas·sen·ger/ˈpæs.ɪn.d͡ʒɚ/noun, verb
passenger is spelled P-A-S-S-E-N-G-E-R, 3 syllables: pas·sen·ger. The wrong spelling people search most is passanger: about 360 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 13 of all searches for the word. Passenger is a noun meaning “One who rides or travels in a vehicle, but who does not operate it and is not a member of the crew”. The plural of passenger is passengers.
How many letters and syllables are in passenger?
| Letters | 9: P-A-S-S-E-N-G-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: pas·sen·ger |
| In writing | 24 times per million words; the 3,752nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, passanger, about 360 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell passenger?
Passenger is spelled P-A-S-S-E-N-G-E-R. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 13 of the searches for passenger in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is passenger?
Passenger appears 24 times per million words in written English, the 3,752nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce passenger?
- UK /ˈpæs.ɪn.d͡ʒə/
- UK /ˈpæs.ən.d͡ʒə/
- US /ˈpæs.ɪn.d͡ʒɚ/
Passenger has 3 syllables, split pas·sen·ger in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-passenger.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of passenger
- passengers plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- passengering participle, present
- passengered participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does passenger mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
One who rides or travels in a vehicle, but who does not operate it and is not a member of the crew.
- 2
UKinformalSomebody in a team who does not do their fair share of the work.
- 3
A young hunting bird that can fly and is taken while it is still in its first year.
- 4
obsoleteA migratory bird, a bird of passage.
- 5
obsoleteA passer-by; a wayfarer.
[The boys] have taken possession of the turnpike road to play the before-mentioned games, to the serious inconvenience of the passengers, one of whom, a woman, was yesterday knocked down by a nurr which struck her in the head.
- 6
obsoleteA ship carrying passengers, a ferryboat.
- 7
A moth, Dysgonia algira
- 8
Any of the individual warheads of a MIRV missile.
verb
- 1
To ride as a passenger in a vehicle.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate passenger?
Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of passenger: P, psgr.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Passenger in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense one who rides or travels in a vehicle:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | passager, passagère |
| German | Passagier, Passagierin, Fahrgast, Fahrgästin |
| Portuguese | passageiro, passageira |
| Spanish | pasajero, pasajera |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does passenger come from?
From Old French passagier with intrusive n (see etymology of messenger).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).