passage piéton
\pɑ.saʒ pje.tɔ̃\
The verdict
“passage piéton” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Partie de la route aménagée pour permettre aux piétons de traverser, en relative sécurité, la chaussée.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | passage piéton |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɑ.saʒ pje.tɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “passage piéton” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
passage piéton is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɑ.saʒ pje.tɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Partie de la route aménagée pour permettre aux piétons de traverser, en relative sécurité, la chaussée.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for passage piéton, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is passage piéton, spelled P-A-S-S-A-G-E- -P-I-É-T-O-N.
Definition
- 1Partie de la route aménagée pour permettre aux piétons de traverser, en relative sécurité, la chaussée.
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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 piéton”
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- -P-I-É-T-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pɑ.saʒ pje.tɔ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- 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.