passade
\pa.sad\
The verdict
“passade” is uncommon French (frequency #84,146 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,146
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Passage, transport.
Corpus desk
Index FR-passade · passade · French
passade · rank #84,146 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,146
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pavoiser
Nearest frequency peer: pavoiser (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « passade »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pardieu
pardieu
15,858 corpus weight
- parfais
parfais
15,857 corpus weight
- passade
passade
15,855 corpus weight
- pavoiser
pavoiser
15,854 corpus weight
- pawn
pawn
15,853 corpus weight
- peaufiné
peaufiné
15,852 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « passade » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | passade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.sad\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #84,146 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « passade » en français
Rare enough to double-check
passade is uncommon French at frequency #84,146 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.sad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for passade in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is passade, spelled P-A-S-S-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Passage, transport.
- 2Caprice, liaison passagère.
- 3Course d’un cheval qu’on fait passer et repasser plusieurs fois sur une même longueur de terrain.
- 4Action de passer sur un autre nageur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how passade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il ne reste plus qu'une dernière cérémonie à accomplir : « la passade » du lit. Mariette a choisi le sien, il s’agit de le transporter de chez le menuisier chez elle.
En Belgique, on a la femme légitime avec quantité d’enfants ; puis la maîtresse, petite fille rangée chez qui on déjeune et qui a aussi des enfants, puis les passades.
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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