passengers
\ˈpæ.sən.dʒɜːz\
The verdict
“passengers” is uncommon French (frequency #97,260 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,260
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de 'passenger'.
Corpus desk
Index FR-passengers · passengers · French
passengers · rank #97,260 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,260
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH paroliers
Nearest frequency peer: paroliers (-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 « passengers »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pardonnant
pardonnant
2,744 corpus weight
- pariétale
pariétale
2,743 corpus weight
- paroliers
paroliers
2,742 corpus weight
- passengers
passengers
2,741 corpus weight
- paumer
paumer
2,739 corpus weight
- payements
payements
2,738 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « passengers » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | passengers |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈpæ.sən.dʒɜːz\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #97,260 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « passengers » en français
Rare enough to double-check
passengers is uncommon French at frequency #97,260 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈpæ.sən.dʒɜːz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de 'passenger'.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for passengers in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 passengers, spelled P-A-S-S-E-N-G-E-R-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de 'passenger'.
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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