passage
\pɑ.saʒ\
The verdict
“passage” is in the everyday core of French, ranked #744 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #744
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Action de passer.
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 | 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) |
Where “passage” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for passage is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, 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 generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for passage, with forms such as "apssage", "pasage", and "pasasge". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 passage, spelled P-A-S-S-A-G-E.
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
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of passage - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “passage”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-A-S-S-A-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pɑ.saʒ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “passé” - see the side-by-side comparison. passage vs passé
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.