passais
\pa.sɛ\
The verdict
“passais” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,456. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,456
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de passer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-passais · passais · French
passais · rank #15,456 · 8 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,456
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH paralysie
Nearest frequency peer: paralysie (-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 « passais »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- orlando
orlando
84,548 corpus weight
- outrage
outrage
84,547 corpus weight
- paralysie
paralysie
84,546 corpus weight
- passais
passais
84,545 corpus weight
- persévérance
persévérance
84,544 corpus weight
- piscines
piscines
84,543 corpus weight
What this shows « passais » 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 | passais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pa.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #15,456 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « passais »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around passais (IPA \pa.sɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #15,456 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for passais, with forms such as "apssais", "pasais", and "pasasis". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "passés", "passif", "posais", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is passais, spelled P-A-S-S-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de passer.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de passer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how passais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pendant les premiers jours de l’établissement de mon vannier, je ne passais point devant sa boutique sans que les battements de mon cœur ne s’accélérassent.
Je me faisais discrète, mettais des vêtements indiens dès que je rentrais à la maison et passais autant de temps que possible dans notre chambre.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apssais
- pasais
- pasasis
- passaiss
- passasi
- passias
- ppassais
- psasais
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of passais - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).