passage obligé
\pa.sa.ʒ‿ɔb.li.ʒe\
The verdict
“passage obligé” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Lieu de franchissement qui ne peut être évité, étant le seul praticable.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | passage obligé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.sa.ʒ‿ɔb.li.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “passage obligé” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for passage obligé is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.sa.ʒ‿ɔb.li.ʒe\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for passage obligé, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is passage obligé, spelled P-A-S-S-A-G-E- -O-B-L-I-G-É.
Definition
- 1Lieu de franchissement qui ne peut être évité, étant le seul praticable.
- 2Lieu où l’on revient systématiquement.
- 3Événement inévitable.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “passage obligé”
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- -O-B-L-I-G-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pa.sa.ʒ‿ɔb.li.ʒe\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.