passagère
\pa.sa.ʒɛʁ\
The verdict
“passagère” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #19,933 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #19,933
- frequency rank, French
- 9
- letters
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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.
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 | passagère |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.sa.ʒɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #19,933 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “passagère” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for passagère is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.sa.ʒɛʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #19,933 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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
- 1Celle qui prend passage à bord d’un navire, ou d’un aéronef, ou d’un train, ou d’un autre véhicule de transport collectif.
- 2Une 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.
This word in other languages
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.
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 “passagère”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-A-S-S-A-G-È-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pa.sa.ʒɛʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “passages” - see the side-by-side comparison. passagère vs passages
- 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.