dépassée
\de.pa.se\
The verdict
“dépassée” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,606. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,606
- frequency rank, French
- 404,891
- “D” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Féminin singulier de dépassé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-depassee · dépassée · French
dépassée · rank #16,606 · 10 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,606
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 404,891
- PHOTO-FINISH démunis
Nearest frequency peer: démunis (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “dépassée”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- dégueu
dégueu
83,398 corpus weight
- délinquant
délinquant
83,397 corpus weight
- démunis
démunis
83,396 corpus weight
- dépassée
dépassée
83,395 corpus weight
- dépendante
dépendante
83,394 corpus weight
- enfiler
enfiler
83,393 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “dépassée” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | dépassée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \de.pa.se\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #16,606 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “dépassée” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around dépassée (IPA \de.pa.se\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #16,606 among 404,891 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de dépassé.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for dépassée, with forms such as "ddépassée", "depassee", and "dpéassée". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "déposée", "dépasser", "dévastée", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is dépassée, spelled D-É-P-A-S-S-É-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de dépassé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dépassée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Benoît Magimel en boss terrifiant et Ophélie Bau en assistante sociale dépassée aident à plonger dans ce monde sans pitié.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddépassée
- depassee
- dpéassée
- déapssée
- dépasseé
- dépasée
- dépasése
- déppassée
- dépsasée
- édpassée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dépassée - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "dépassée", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.