passenger
\ˈpæ.sən.dʒɜː\
The verdict
“passenger” is uncommon French (frequency #71,775 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,775
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Passager.
Corpus desk
Index FR-passenger · passenger · French
passenger · rank #71,775 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,775
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH paske
Nearest frequency peer: paske (-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 « passenger »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- parodiant
parodiant
28,230 corpus weight
- Parsifal
Parsifal
28,229 corpus weight
- partibus
partibus
28,228 corpus weight
- paske
paske
28,227 corpus weight
- passenger
passenger
28,226 corpus weight
- paver
paver
28,225 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « passenger » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | passenger |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈpæ.sən.dʒɜː\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #71,775 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « passenger » en français
Rare enough to double-check
passenger is uncommon French at frequency #71,775 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈpæ.sən.dʒɜː\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Passager.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for passenger, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is passenger, spelled P-A-S-S-E-N-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Passager.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how passenger appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Although the passengers on the right side of the bus were outside of the impact and intrusion zone, many of them were thrown out of their seats during the collision sequence and sustained injuries because the bus’s seat belts were inaccessible and not used.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).