passive-voice
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "passive-voice", 13-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Wiktionary, and usage frequency ranked against an open word-frequency list covering the top 100,000 English words. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "passive-voice" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "passive-voice" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
The verdict
“passive voice” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
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- 13
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Dominant Wiktionary sense: The form of a transitive verb in which its subject receives the action.
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Browse all word comparisons →| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | passive voice |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “passive voice” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for passive voice is 13 letters long, classified as a noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for passive voice in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English 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 English form is passive voice, spelled P-A-S-S-I-V-E- -V-O-I-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1The form of a transitive verb in which its subject receives the action.
- 2Any writing which obscures the identity of the perpetrator of an action, regardless of whether the sentence uses the passive form of a verb.
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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-A-S-S-I-V-E- -V-O-I-C-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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