passagère

\pa.sa.ʒɛʁ\

/\pa.sa.ʒɛʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“passagère” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,933. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#19,933
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui prend passage à bord d’un navire, ou d’un aéronef, ou d’un train, ou d’un autre véhicule de transport collectif.

Corpus desk

Index FR-passagere · passagère · French

passagère · rank #19,933 · 12 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #19,933
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH partitions

Nearest frequency peer: partitions (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « passagère »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « passagère » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

passagère vs passages
67% similar
passagère vs paysager
67% similar
passagère vs passagers
78% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for passagère
PropertyValue
Headwordpassagère
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pa.sa.ʒɛʁ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#19,933
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « passagère »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).passagèrese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « partitions » (#19,932), « payants » (#19,934), « paranoïa » (#19,931). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « passagère » est au #19,933. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around passagère (IPA \pa.sa.ʒɛʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,933 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for passagère, with forms such as "apssagère", "pasagère", and "pasasgère". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "passages", "paysager", "passagers", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is passagère, spelled P-A-S-S-A-G-È-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Celle qui prend passage à bord d’un navire, ou d’un aéronef, ou d’un train, ou d’un autre véhicule de transport collectif.
  2. 2
    Une espèce d’insecte lépidoptère (papillon) de nuit de la famille des noctuidés (Noctuidae) dont le dos des ailes est de couleur grise avec des bandes foncées.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how passagère appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Comme on le pense, elle fut présentée au commandant et entourée de tous les égards dus à une passagère de choix.
  2. La rencontre avec sa passagère, Élise, puis la complicité avec sa propre fille, Klara, vont conduire Brendan, au fil des rebondissements de ce roman, à une prise de conscience inédite pour lui.

This word in other languages

Passenger(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • apssagère
  • pasagère
  • pasasgère
  • passagere
  • passaggère
  • passagrèe
  • passagèer
  • passagèrre
  • passaègre
  • passgaère
  • ppassagère
  • psasagère

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of passagère - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

apssagère2pasagère1pasasgère2passagere1passaggère1passagrèe2passagèer2passagèrre1
Edit distance from "passagère"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "passagère"?
"passagère" is spelled P-A-S-S-A-G-È-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pa.sa.ʒɛʁ\.
What does "passagère" mean?
As a noun, "passagère" means: Celle qui prend passage à bord d’un navire, ou d’un aéronef, ou d’un train, ou d’un autre véhicule de transport collectif.
What words are commonly confused with "passagère"?
"passagère" is commonly confused with "passages", "paysager", "passagers". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "passagère"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "passagère" is \pa.sa.ʒɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "passagère" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "passagère", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

ossements#19,925pistolets#19,941populiste#19,945porterait#19,946

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

pandémie12 variantsobtenant12 variantsmontante12 variantsrétablie12 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list