passabel
\paˈsaːbl̩\
The verdict
“passabel” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Passable, acceptable, qui n’est pas mauvais dans son genre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-passabel · passabel · French
passabel · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" 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 | passabel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \paˈsaːbl̩\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « passabel » en français
Rare enough to double-check
passabel is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \paˈsaːbl̩\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Passable, acceptable, qui n’est pas mauvais dans son genre.".
No misspelling variants are generated for passabel in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is passabel, spelled P-A-S-S-A-B-E-L.
Definition
- 1Passable, acceptable, qui n’est pas mauvais dans son genre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how passabel appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
(Afghanistan) darbt, weil internationale Gelder eingefroren sind und die Islamisten sich bislang nicht durch eine passable Regierungsführung hervorgetan haben. Für Millionen Afghanen stellt sich die existenzielle Frage, wovon sie die nächste Mahlzeit bezahlen sollen.
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.