passants
\pa.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“passants” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,831. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,831
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de passant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-passants · passants · French
passants · rank #12,831 · 11 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,831
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH panthéon
Nearest frequency peer: panthéon (-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 « passants »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- orphelins
orphelins
87,173 corpus weight
- Orsay
Orsay
87,172 corpus weight
- panthéon
panthéon
87,171 corpus weight
- passants
passants
87,170 corpus weight
- pentes
pentes
87,169 corpus weight
- pick
pick
87,168 corpus weight
What this shows « passants » 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 | passants |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pa.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #12,831 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « passants »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around passants (IPA \pa.sɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #12,831 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de passant.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for passants, with forms such as "apssants", "pasants", and "pasasnts". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "passent", "paysans", "payants", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 passants, spelled P-A-S-S-A-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de passant.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apssants
- pasants
- pasasnts
- passannts
- passanst
- passantss
- passantts
- passatns
- passnats
- ppassants
- psasants
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of passants - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).