passée
\pa.se\
The verdict
“passée” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,439. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,439
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de passer. Passage
Corpus desk
Index FR-passee · passée · French
passée · rank #2,439 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,439
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH passent
Nearest frequency peer: passent (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “passée”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- one
one
97,565 corpus weight
- organisme
organisme
97,564 corpus weight
- passent
passent
97,563 corpus weight
- passée
passée
97,562 corpus weight
- personnalité
personnalité
97,561 corpus weight
- princesse
princesse
97,560 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “passée” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | passée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.se\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,439 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “passée” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around passée (IPA \pa.se\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,439 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for passée, with forms such as "apssée", "passee", and "passeé". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pause", "payée", "Pisse", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 passée, spelled P-A-S-S-É-E.
Definition
- 1Action de passer. Passage
- 2Moment du soir où les bécasses se lèvent du bois pour se diriger vers les champs.
- 3Grand filet pour prendre les bécasses.
- 4Trace laissée, en passant, par certaines bêtes fauves, le cerf, le daim, etc.
- 5Mouvement de va-et-vient d'une navette.
- 6Quantité de peaux que l'on fait entrer dans une cuve, dans une tannerie.
- 7Dans une mine de charbon, mince couche de houille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how passée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les passées de l'ouragan, comme dans une chevelure fragile, ouvraient de rapides et fugitives tranchées dans la masse des arbres gris qu'elles écartaient comme des herbes, et l'on voyait alors l'espace d'une seconde un sol nu, des rocs noirs, les fissures étroites des ravins.
Tuer, prendre des bécasses à la passée. Voici bientôt l’heure de la passée.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apssée
- passee
- passeé
- pasée
- pasése
- ppassée
- psasée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of passée - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "passée", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "passée". Here's where to go from here.
- "passée" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "pause". View pair
- 7 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #2,439 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "P" letter cohort. P–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.