passablement
\pa.sa.blə.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“passablement” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,641. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,641
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 17
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’une manière passable, de manière qu’on puisse s’en contenter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-passablement · passablement · French
passablement · rank #22,641 · 17 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,641
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 17 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH paper
Nearest frequency peer: paper (-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 « passablement »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Ouagadougou
Ouagadougou
77,363 corpus weight
- Palerme
Palerme
77,362 corpus weight
- paper
paper
77,361 corpus weight
- passablement
passablement
77,360 corpus weight
- pasteurs
pasteurs
77,359 corpus weight
- patins
patins
77,358 corpus weight
What this shows « passablement » 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 | passablement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \pa.sa.blə.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #22,641 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « passablement »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 17 spelling variants around passablement (IPA \pa.sa.blə.mɑ̃\), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #22,641 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for passablement, with forms such as "apssablement", "pasablement", and "pasasblement". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "possiblement", "paisiblement", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is passablement, spelled P-A-S-S-A-B-L-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1D’une manière passable, de manière qu’on puisse s’en contenter.
- 2D’une manière dépassant en mal la mesure ordinaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how passablement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est, comme on peut le voir, une charmante construction, bien faite et passablement conservée.
Ce n’est pas peu dans les provinces éloignées de la cour d’être passablement raisonnable,
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apssablement
- pasablement
- pasasblement
- passabblement
- passabelment
- passableemnt
- passablemennt
- passablementt
- passablemetn
- passablemment
- passablemnet
- passabllement
- passablmeent
- passalbement
- passbalement
- ppassablement
- psasablement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of passablement - 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
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Same letter count
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).