passent
\pas\
The verdict
“passent” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,438. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,438
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de passer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-passent · passent · French
passent · rank #2,438 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,438
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH organisme
Nearest frequency peer: organisme (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « passent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- officielle
officielle
97,566 corpus weight
- 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
What this shows « passent » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | passent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pas\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #2,438 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « passent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around passent (IPA \pas\), averb. Corpus frequency is #2,438 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for passent, with forms such as "apssent", "pasent", and "pasesnt". 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, "passer", "passés", "passez", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is passent, spelled P-A-S-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de passer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de passer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how passent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un monsieur et une dame passent devant moi, interrompant leur conversation pour que je ne les entende pas, comme s’ils me refusaient l’aumône de ce qu’ils pensent.
D'après une évaluation récente à l'échelle européenne, nos écoliers passent pour des nullâtres en sciences exactes…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apssent
- pasent
- pasesnt
- passennt
- passentt
- passetn
- passnet
- ppassent
- psasent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of passent - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 "passent", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).