passai
\pa.se\
The verdict
“passai” is uncommon French (frequency #78,717 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,717
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du passé simple de passer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-passai · passai · French
passai · rank #78,717 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,717
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH parvenais
Nearest frequency peer: parvenais (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « passai »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- paralysante
paralysante
21,287 corpus weight
- partagerez
partagerez
21,286 corpus weight
- parvenais
parvenais
21,285 corpus weight
- passai
passai
21,284 corpus weight
- passionnait
passionnait
21,283 corpus weight
- pastiches
pastiches
21,282 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « passai » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | passai |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pa.se\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #78,717 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « passai » en français
Rare enough to double-check
passai is uncommon French at frequency #78,717 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pa.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Première personne du singulier du passé simple de passer.".
passai has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is passai, spelled P-A-S-S-A-I.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du passé simple de passer.
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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