passantes

\pa.sɑ̃t\

/\pa.sɑ̃t\/ adj

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The verdict

“passantes” is uncommon French (frequency #72,599 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#72,599
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de passant.

Corpus desk

Index FR-passantes · passantes · French

passantes · rank #72,599 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #72,599
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH patchouli

Nearest frequency peer: patchouli (+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 « passantes »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « passantes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for passantes
PropertyValue
Headwordpassantes
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\pa.sɑ̃t\
Letters9
Frequency rank#72,599
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « passantes » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).passantestombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « patchouli » (#72,600), « Paulet » (#72,601), « papillomavirus » (#72,596). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « passantes » est au #72,599. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

passantes is uncommon French at frequency #72,599 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pa.sɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de passant.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for passantes, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is passantes, spelled P-A-S-S-A-N-T-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Féminin pluriel de passant.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "passantes"?
"passantes" is spelled P-A-S-S-A-N-T-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \pa.sɑ̃t\.
What does "passantes" mean?
As an adjective, "passantes" means: Féminin pluriel de passant.
How do you pronounce "passantes"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "passantes" is \pa.sɑ̃t\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "passantes" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "passantes", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

patchouli#72,600pipelette#72,617normatifs#72,579Pornichet#72,629

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list