passage
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | passage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɑ.saʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #744 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Action de passer.
- 2Cette action en parlant des animaux migrateurs.
- 3Cette action en parlant des liquides et des gaz.
- 4Interposition d’un astre entre l’œil d’un observateur et d’autres corps célestes : transit.
- 5Transition.
- 6Changement d’une situation, d’une disposition d’âme en une autre.
- 7Lieu par où l’on passe.
- 8Lieu où passe le gibier.
- 9Traversée : composant, élément permettant à l’électricité, à un fluide, à la lumière voire à une action mécanique de passer à travers une paroi.
- 10Galerie couverte et réservé aux piétons, qui servent de dégagement aux rues voisines.
- 11Va-et-vient ; fréquentation.
- 12Droit général ou particulier de passer sur la propriété d’autrui, par prescription ou par convention.
- 13Péage pour traverser une rivière dans un bac ou dans un bateau, pour passer sur un pont, par une écluse, etc.
- 14Somme qu’il faut payer pour un voyage sur mer, pour une traversée.
- 15Partie du texte d’un ouvrage, d'un article, d'un document, etc.
- 16Quelques mesures ou quelques phrases d’une œuvre.
- 17Procédé de sous-culture de cellules animales.
- 18Sorte d’allure lente du cheval.
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"
Frequency rank: #744 in French
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