passe-balle
\pas.bal\
The verdict
“passe-balle” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de gabarit dans lequel ont fait passer les balles pour en vérifier le calibre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-passe-balle · passe-balle · French
passe-balle · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | passe-balle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pas.bal\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
passe-balle is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pas.bal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sorte de gabarit dans lequel ont fait passer les balles pour en vérifier le calibre.".
Zero misspellings are on record for passe-balle in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is passe-balle, spelled P-A-S-S-E---B-A-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Sorte de gabarit dans lequel ont fait passer les balles pour en vérifier le calibre.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.