passage protégé
\pa.saʒ pʁɔ.te.ʒe\
The verdict
“passage protégé” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- 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 protégé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.saʒ pʁɔ.te.ʒe\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “passage protégé” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
passage protégé is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.saʒ pʁɔ.te.ʒe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for passage protégé, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is passage protégé, spelled P-A-S-S-A-G-E- -P-R-O-T-É-G-É.
Definition
- 1Partie de la route aménagée pour permettre aux piétons de traverser, en relative sécurité, la chaussée.
- 2Mention portée, de 1963 à 1977, sur un panonceau sous un panneau de signalisation AB1 pour indiquer que la route sur laquelle se trouve l’usager est prioritaire à l’intersection proche.
This word in other languages
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 protégé”
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-R-O-T-É-G-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pa.saʒ pʁɔ.te.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.