passage

/\pɑ.saʒ\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#744

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

passage is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de passer. Pronounced \pɑ.saʒ\. It ranks #744 in French word frequency. Often confused with passé and passée.

Key facts for passage
PropertyValue
Headwordpassage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pɑ.saʒ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#744
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of passage in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for passage is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pɑ.saʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #744 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 18 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for passage, with forms such as "apssage", "pasage", and "pasasge". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "passé", "passée", "pavage", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is passage, spelled P-A-S-S-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action de passer.
  2. 2
    Cette action en parlant des animaux migrateurs.
  3. 3
    Cette action en parlant des liquides et des gaz.
  4. 4
    Interposition d’un astre entre l’œil d’un observateur et d’autres corps célestes : transit.
  5. 5
    Transition.
  6. 6
    Changement d’une situation, d’une disposition d’âme en une autre.
  7. 7
    Lieu par où l’on passe.
  8. 8
    Lieu où passe le gibier.
  9. 9
    Traversée : composant, élément permettant à l’électricité, à un fluide, à la lumière voire à une action mécanique de passer à travers une paroi.
  10. 10
    Galerie couverte et réservé aux piétons, qui servent de dégagement aux rues voisines.
  11. 11
    Va-et-vient ; fréquentation.
  12. 12
    Droit général ou particulier de passer sur la propriété d’autrui, par prescription ou par convention.
  13. 13
    Péage pour traverser une rivière dans un bac ou dans un bateau, pour passer sur un pont, par une écluse, etc.
  14. 14
    Somme qu’il faut payer pour un voyage sur mer, pour une traversée.
  15. 15
    Partie du texte d’un ouvrage, d'un article, d'un document, etc.
  16. 16
    Quelques mesures ou quelques phrases d’une œuvre.
  17. 17
    Procédé de sous-culture de cellules animales.
  18. 18
    Sorte d’allure lente du cheval.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: apssage,pasage,pasasge,passaeg,passagge,passgae,ppassage,psasage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for passage

Misspelling Variants of "passage"

apssage7pasage6pasasge7passaeg7passagge8passgae7ppassage8psasage7
Misspelling Variants of "passage"

Frequency rank: #744 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "passage"?
"passage" is spelled P-A-S-S-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pɑ.saʒ\.
What does "passage" mean?
As a noun, "passage" means: Action de passer.
What words are commonly confused with "passage"?
"passage" is commonly confused with "passé", "passée", "pavage". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "passage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "passage" is \pɑ.saʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "passage" come from?
"passage" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.