Passover
"passover" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Passover” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #23,057 in English word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #23,057
- frequency rank, English
- 8
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The one-day Biblical feast or festival (not a holy day) that begins at twilight at the beginning of the fourteenth day of the first month (Abib 14 / Nisan 14), during which the first-born sons of t...
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Passover |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #23,057 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Passover” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Passover is 8 letters long, classified as a proper noun. 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 generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Passover, with forms such as "apssover", "pasosver", and "pasover". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "pushover", "passer", "passive", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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). The correct English form is Passover, spelled P-A-S-S-O-V-E-R.
Definition
- 1The one-day Biblical feast or festival (not a holy day) that begins at twilight at the beginning of the fourteenth day of the first month (Abib 14 / Nisan 14), during which the first-born sons of the Israelites were passed over while those of the Egyptians were killed; this feast day is then immediately followed by the seven-day Feast of Unleavened Bread (Nisan 15 to 21; the first and seventh days are holy days or annual or yearly Sabbaths).
- 2The seven-day (Reform Judaism) or eight-day (Orthodox and Conservative Judaism) Jewish festival of Pesach (also called the Feast of Unleavened Bread (מַצּוֹת (matsót)), commemorating the biblical story of the Exodus.
Etymology
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).
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: apssover,pasosver,pasover,passoevr,passoverr,passovre,passovver,passvoer,ppassover,psasover
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Passover - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 “Passover”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-A-S-S-O-V-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Don't mix it up with “pushover” - see the side-by-side comparison. Passover vs pushover
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.