passaient
\pa.sɛ\
The verdict
“passaient” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,651. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,651
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de passer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-passaient · passaient · French
passaient · rank #13,651 · 11 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,651
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH parcelles
Nearest frequency peer: parcelles (-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 « passaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- orientée
orientée
86,353 corpus weight
- parano
parano
86,352 corpus weight
- parcelles
parcelles
86,351 corpus weight
- passaient
passaient
86,350 corpus weight
- patriotique
patriotique
86,349 corpus weight
- paypal
paypal
86,348 corpus weight
What this shows « passaient » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | passaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pa.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #13,651 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « passaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around passaient (IPA \pa.sɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #13,651 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de passer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for passaient, with forms such as "apssaient", "pasaient", and "pasasient". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "passant", "passent", "passait", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 passaient, spelled P-A-S-S-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de passer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how passaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des millions d’Américains et de touristes étrangers franchissaient les portes de cette Babylone moderne pour venir y pécher en toute connaissance de cause, puis passaient le reste de l’année à se laver de leurs fautes.
Les familles poussetaient leurs enfants comme s’il s’agissait du futur dalaï-lama ; centaures à roulettes, les ados glissaient, piétinant leurs skates ; les vélos sinuaient dans la foule ensoleillée ; les athlètes en marcels fluos suaient dans l’air iodé ; légères, volubiles et nombreuses, les filles passaient.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apssaient
- pasaient
- pasasient
- passaeint
- passaiennt
- passaientt
- passaietn
- passainet
- passiaent
- ppassaient
- psasaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of passaient - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "passaient", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).