passover

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English entry for Passover is 8 letters long, classified as aname. Corpus data places it at rank #23,057 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for Passover, with forms such as "apssover", "pasosver", and "pasover". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "pushover", "passer", "passive", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: Deverbal from pass over. Coined by William Tyndale (c. 1494–1536), the first translator of the Bible into modern English, as a calque of Hebrew פֶּסַח (pésakh). Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is Passover, spelled P-A-S-S-O-V-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.