dépassa
\de.pa.sa\
The verdict
“dépassa” is uncommon French (frequency #62,943 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,943
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de dépasser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-depassa · dépassa · French
dépassa · rank #62,943 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,943
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH délimitent
Nearest frequency peer: délimitent (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « dépassa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- déjoués
déjoués
37,060 corpus weight
- délimitent
délimitent
37,059 corpus weight
- dépassa
dépassa
37,058 corpus weight
- dépassez
dépassez
37,057 corpus weight
- déracinement
déracinement
37,056 corpus weight
- dérangeantes
dérangeantes
37,055 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « dépassa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dépassa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.pa.sa\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #62,943 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dépassa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dépassa is uncommon French at frequency #62,943 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.pa.sa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de dépasser.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for dépassa, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is dépassa, spelled D-É-P-A-S-S-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de dépasser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dépassa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Filant au nord, elle dépassa Hossegor et Seignosse puis s’arrêta sur le bord de la route, au-delà de Vieux-Boucau-les-Bains, pour écrire un SMS au malheureux qu’elle venait d’abandonner.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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