PASS
French, noun\pas\
PASS is spelled P-A-S-S (4 letters) and appears 6.6 times per million words in written French, the 9,132nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). PASS is a French masculine noun meaning “initialism of parcours accès spécifique santé (“specific health access path”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Passe, carte d’abonnement (pour les transports en commun, les musées, etc)”.
What does PASS mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineinitialism of parcours accès spécifique santé (“specific health access path”)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Passe, carte d’abonnement (pour les transports en commun, les musées, etc).
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce PASS?
- \pas\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is PASS in French?
PASS appears 6.6 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).