# Passover

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #23,057

## Definitions
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. 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.

## 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).

## Easily confused with
- **pushover** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/passover-vs-pushover)
- **passer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/passer-vs-passover)
- **passive** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/passive-vs-passover)

## Common misspellings (10)
`apssover`, `pasosver`, `pasover`, `passoevr`, `passoverr`, `passovre`, `passovver`, `passvoer`, `ppassover`, `psasover`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/passover