passation
\pa.sa.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“passation” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,320. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,320
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fait de passer un acte
Corpus desk
Index FR-passation · passation · French
passation · rank #24,320 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,320
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH paroissiens
Nearest frequency peer: paroissiens (-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 « passation »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- papers
papers
75,683 corpus weight
- paroissiens
paroissiens
75,682 corpus weight
- passation
passation
75,681 corpus weight
- perf
perf
75,680 corpus weight
- perpétue
perpétue
75,679 corpus weight
- perturbant
perturbant
75,678 corpus weight
What this shows « passation » 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 | passation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.sa.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #24,320 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « passation »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around passation (IPA \pa.sa.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,320 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for passation, with forms such as "apssation", "pasastion", and "pasation". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "passion", "pulsation", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is passation, spelled P-A-S-S-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Fait de passer un acte
- 2Fait de passer un acte
- 3Fait de passer un acte
- 4Transmission
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how passation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un procès visant des marchés publics de construction pour plus de 35 millions d’euros hors taxes ainsi que la cession d’un terrain en 2016-2018 à Annecy, actes ayant selon l’accusation profité frauduleusement à Bouygues, est d’abord fait de débats techniques ennuyeux sur la loi régissant la passation de marchés et son application.
Assister à la passation d’un contrat, d’un acte.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apssation
- pasastion
- pasation
- passaiton
- passatino
- passationn
- passatoin
- passattion
- passtaion
- ppassation
- psasation
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of passation - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "passation", 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).