passavant
\pa.sa.vɑ̃\
The verdict
“passavant” is uncommon French (frequency #80,486 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,486
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Passerelle légère établie, sur certains bateaux de plaisance ou de commerce, pour faire communiquer l’avant avec l’arrière.
Corpus desk
Index FR-passavant · passavant · French
passavant · rank #80,486 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,486
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH paseo
Nearest frequency peer: paseo (-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 « passavant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- palms
palms
19,518 corpus weight
- Parigot
Parigot
19,517 corpus weight
- paseo
paseo
19,516 corpus weight
- passavant
passavant
19,515 corpus weight
- patents
patents
19,514 corpus weight
- patentés
patentés
19,513 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « passavant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | passavant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.sa.vɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #80,486 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « passavant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
passavant is uncommon French at frequency #80,486 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.sa.vɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for passavant in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is passavant, spelled P-A-S-S-A-V-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Passerelle légère établie, sur certains bateaux de plaisance ou de commerce, pour faire communiquer l’avant avec l’arrière.
- 2Laissez-passer qui autorise à transporter d’un lieu à un autre des denrées ou marchandises qui ont déjà payé le droit ou qui en sont exemptes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how passavant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les deux chefs se joignirent sur un des passavants, ce passage étroit qui communique du gaillard d’avant à l’arrière.
Se faire délivrer un passavant. Le passavant doit être présenté aux préposés, sur la route, toutes les fois qu’ils le requièrent.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).