passait
\pa.sɛ\
The verdict
“passait” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,866. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,866
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de passer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-passait · passait · French
passait · rank #3,866 · 8 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,866
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH parisiens
Nearest frequency peer: parisiens (-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 « passait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Normandie
Normandie
96,138 corpus weight
- négociations
négociations
96,137 corpus weight
- parisiens
parisiens
96,136 corpus weight
- passait
passait
96,135 corpus weight
- pensait
pensait
96,134 corpus weight
- prochaines
prochaines
96,133 corpus weight
What this shows « passait » 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 | passait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pa.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,866 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « passait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around passait (IPA \pa.sɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #3,866 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de passer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for passait, with forms such as "apssait", "pasait", and "pasasit". 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 19 confusable-pair relationships, "passif", "posait", "payait", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is passait, spelled P-A-S-S-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de passer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how passait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il était moins gai que jadis, une inquiétude secrète semblait peser sur lui continuellement et il passait son temps de façon pitoyable à ramasser les bouts de cigares, étant devenu mégotier…
Que se passait-il, pour qu’il lui restât à peine un frémissement, avec la lassitude heureuse des convalescences ?
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apssait
- pasait
- pasasit
- passaitt
- passati
- passiat
- ppassait
- psasait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of passait - 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
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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).