participe passé
\paʁ.ti.sip pa.se\
The verdict
“participe passé” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Temps du verbe utilisé pour former les temps composés de la voix active ou passive.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | participe passé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \paʁ.ti.sip pa.se\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “participe passé” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for participe passé is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \paʁ.ti.sip pa.se\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Temps du verbe utilisé pour former les temps composés de la voix active ou passive.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for participe passé in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is participe passé, spelled P-A-R-T-I-C-I-P-E- -P-A-S-S-É.
Definition
- 1Temps du verbe utilisé pour former les temps composés de la voix active ou passive.
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.
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Using “participe passé”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-A-R-T-I-C-I-P-E- -P-A-S-S-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.