passable
\pa.sabl\
The verdict
“passable” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,950. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,950
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui peut passer, qui peut être admis, comme n’étant pas mauvais dans son genre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-passable · passable · French
passable · rank #41,950 · 10 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,950
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH paradigmes
Nearest frequency peer: paradigmes (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « passable »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Ouïghours
Ouïghours
58,054 corpus weight
- oy
oy
58,053 corpus weight
- paradigmes
paradigmes
58,052 corpus weight
- passable
passable
58,051 corpus weight
- passionnants
passionnants
58,050 corpus weight
- pavées
pavées
58,049 corpus weight
What this shows « passable » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | passable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pa.sabl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #41,950 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « passable »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around passable (IPA \pa.sabl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #41,950 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui peut passer, qui peut être admis, comme n’étant pas mauvais dans son genre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for passable, with forms such as "apssable", "pasable", and "pasasble". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "passage", "payable", "possible", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is passable, spelled P-A-S-S-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui peut passer, qui peut être admis, comme n’étant pas mauvais dans son genre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how passable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce vin n’est pas excellent, mais il est passable.
Ces vers ne sont que passables.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apssable
- pasable
- pasasble
- passabble
- passabel
- passablle
- passalbe
- passbale
- ppassable
- psasable
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of passable - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "passable", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).