pass
/pɑːs/
The verdict
“pass” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #20,155) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #20,155
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 6,028
- “P” headwords
- 3
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pasar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-pass · pass · Spanish
pass · rank #20,155 · 3 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,155
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 3 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,028
- PHOTO-FINISH partícula
Nearest frequency peer: partícula (-1 rank slots)
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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “pass”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- participará
participará
79,849 corpus weight
- partidista
partidista
79,848 corpus weight
- partícula
partícula
79,847 corpus weight
- pass
pass
79,846 corpus weight
- patrocinador
patrocinador
79,845 corpus weight
- pegamento
pegamento
79,844 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “pass” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
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 | pass |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /pɑːs/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #20,155 |
| Misspellings tracked | 3 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “pass”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for pass is neighbouring look-alikes ("paz", "pau", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced /pɑːs/. Frequency #20,155 among 6,028 “P” headwords. 10 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for pass, with forms such as "apss", "ppass", and "psas". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "paz", "pau", "pat", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 Spanish form is pass, spelled P-A-S-S.
Definition
- 1Pasar.
- 2Dejar pasar.
- 3Dejar atrás.
- 4Trasmitir, ceder.
- 5Superar.
- 6Adelantar.
- 7Transcurrir.
- 8Aprobar.
- 9Sentenciar.
- 10Terminar.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apss
- ppass
- psas
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pass - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pass", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).