Passover

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"passover" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“Passover” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #23,057. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#23,057
frequency rank, English
4,417
“P” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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...

Corpus desk

Index EN-passover · Passover · English

Passover · rank #23,057 · 10 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #23,057
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,417
  • PHOTO-FINISH pant

Nearest frequency peer: pant (-1 rank slots)

Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Passover”

Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword

corpus weight

What this shows “Passover” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Passover vs pushover
63% similar
Passover vs passer
63% similar
Passover vs passive
63% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Passover
PropertyValue
HeadwordPassover
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechProper noun
Letters8
Frequency rank#23,057
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Passover”

Word frequency stretches from the small set of words we reach for constantly (left) out to the long tail barely used once in a while (right).Passoverlands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Same rarity band neighbours include “pant” (#23,056), “Peking” (#23,058), “Panasonic” (#23,055). Among 4,417 “P” headwords, “Passover” is #23,057. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around Passover, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #23,057 among 4,417 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

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

  1. 1
    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 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).
  2. 2
    The 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.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Passover appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. ⁵ In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight is the Lord's Passover. ⁶ Then on the fifteenth day of the same month there is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the Lord; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. ⁷ On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work. ⁸ But for seven days you sha…
  2. Right now, my family’s special collision of vegetarianism and Judaism necessitates a good bit of chocolate. But when Passover ends, that doesn’t mean we should put the chocolate cake, or the chocolate milk, away.

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

Feast of MatsotFeast of MatzotFeast of Unleavened BreadFestival of MatsotFestival of MatzotFestival of Unleavened Bread

This word in other languages

pascua(Español)Pâque(Français)Passah(Deutsch)

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.

apssover2pasosver2pasover1passoevr2passoverr1passovre2passovver1passvoer2
Edit distance from "Passover"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Passover"?
"Passover" is spelled P-A-S-S-O-V-E-R.
What does "Passover" mean?
As a proper noun, "Passover" means: 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...
What words are commonly confused with "Passover"?
"Passover" is commonly confused with "pushover", "passer", "passive". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What is the origin of the word "Passover"?
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). See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Passover", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list