dépassez
\de.pa.se\
The verdict
“dépassez” is uncommon French (frequency #62,944 among 5,307 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,944
- frequency rank, French
- 5,307
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de dépasser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-depassez · dépassez · French
dépassez · rank #62,944 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,944
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,307
- PHOTO-FINISH dépassa
Nearest frequency peer: dépassa (-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 « dépassez »
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 « dépassez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dépassez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \de.pa.se\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #62,944 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « dépassez » en français
Rare enough to double-check
dépassez is uncommon French at frequency #62,944 among 5,307 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \de.pa.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for dépassez, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is dépassez, spelled D-É-P-A-S-S-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de dépasser.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif de dépasser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dépassez appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vous dépassez un problème pratique et vous vous sentez plus libre d’agir.
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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