non-passé
\nɔ̃.pa.se\
The verdict
“non-passé” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Temps grammatical correspondant au présent et au futur, par opposition au passé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-non-passe · non-passé · French
non-passé · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "N" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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 | non-passé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \nɔ̃.pa.se\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « non-passé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
non-passé is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \nɔ̃.pa.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Temps grammatical correspondant au présent et au futur, par opposition au passé.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for non-passé, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is non-passé, spelled N-O-N---P-A-S-S-É.
Definition
- 1Temps grammatical correspondant au présent et au futur, par opposition au passé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how non-passé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La première phase de remontée, c’est le passé : worked ; la seconde phase de remontée, c’est le non-passé : work.
[…] l’imperfectif tend à situer l’événement dans le non-passé. Inversement, le perfectif tend à situer l’événement dans le passé.
This word in other languages
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.