passeport

/\pas.pɔʁ\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#6,637

in French word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

passeport is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pièce d’identité délivrée par l’État, permettant aux nationaux d’un pays soit de circuler librement à l’intérieur, soit de voyager dans un autre pays. Pronounced \pas.pɔʁ\. It ranks #6,637 in French word frequency. Often confused with passeront and passeports.

Key facts for passeport
PropertyValue
Headwordpasseport
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pas.pɔʁ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#6,637
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of passeport in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for passeport is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pas.pɔʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,637 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for passeport, with forms such as "apsseport", "paseport", and "pasesport". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "passeront", "passeports", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is passeport, spelled P-A-S-S-E-P-O-R-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pièce d’identité délivrée par l’État, permettant aux nationaux d’un pays soit de circuler librement à l’intérieur, soit de voyager dans un autre pays.
  2. 2
    Autorisation de sortie délivrée à un navire contre acquittement des droits de douane.
  3. 3
    Ce qui permet de passer d'un lieu ou d'un état à un autre, d'être accepté dans des cercles fermés.
  4. 4
    Autorisation de vente à l’étranger d’une œuvre d’art.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: apsseport,paseport,pasesport,passeoprt,passeporrt,passeportt,passepotr,passepport,passeprot,passpeort,ppasseport,psaseport

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for passeport

Misspelling Variants of "passeport"

apsseport9paseport8pasesport9passeoprt9passeporrt10passeportt10passepotr9passepport10
Misspelling Variants of "passeport"

Frequency rank: #6,637 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "passeport"?
"passeport" is spelled P-A-S-S-E-P-O-R-T. The IPA pronunciation is \pas.pɔʁ\.
What does "passeport" mean?
As a noun, "passeport" means: Pièce d’identité délivrée par l’État, permettant aux nationaux d’un pays soit de circuler librement à l’intérieur, soit de voyager dans un autre pays.
What words are commonly confused with "passeport"?
"passeport" is commonly confused with "passeront", "passeports". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "passeport"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "passeport" is \pas.pɔʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "passeport" come from?
"passeport" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.