sell the pass
"sell-the-pass" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sell the pass” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To betray one's comrades or countrymen; to betray a cause.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sell-the-pass · sell the pass · English
sell the pass · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sell the pass |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “sell the pass” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sell the pass is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To betray one's comrades or countrymen; to betray a cause.".
Zero misspellings are on record for sell the pass in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is sell the pass, spelled S-E-L-L- -T-H-E- -P-A-S-S.
Definition
- 1To betray one's comrades or countrymen; to betray a cause.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sell the pass appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A respectable divine like Samual Torshell sold the pass when he wrote in 1645 that there was no difference between men and women in the state of grace.
In fact the officials in the Richmond Asylum had pre-empted Sinn Féin. They managed to sell the pass without losing their jobs in the process, unlike Henry Campbell or John Flood.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.