passeport

\pas.pɔʁ\

/\pas.pɔʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“passeport” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,637. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,637
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 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.

Corpus desk

Index FR-passeport · passeport · French

passeport · rank #6,637 · 12 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,637
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH organe

Nearest frequency peer: organe (-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 « passeport »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « passeport » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

passeport vs passeront
78% similar
passeport vs passeports
90% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

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)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « passeport »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.passeportse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « organe » (#6,636), « phare » (#6,638), « opposants » (#6,635). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « passeport » est au #6,637. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around passeport (IPA \pas.pɔʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,637 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for passeport, with forms such as "apsseport", "paseport", and "pasesport". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is passeport, spelled P-A-S-S-E-P-O-R-T.

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.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how passeport appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Dès lors, les Sahraouis ne purent se déplacer entre les zones contrôlées par le Maroc que dans des convois militaires. Seuls quelques commerçants de confiance restent autorisés à se rendre aux îles Canaries munis de passeports marocains.
  2. Peut-être je voulais mettre la main, comme dans les films, sur nos passeports, que bien sûr, les fliquesses avaient confisqués, et avec, nos identités. Pas si simple, en fait, de leur échapper. — (Laure Ly, Demain matin, Paris : Éditions Balland, 2000)

Synonyms

laissez-passersauf-conduit

This word in other languages

passport(English)pasaporte(Español)Reisepass(Deutsch)passaporte(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • apsseport
  • paseport
  • pasesport
  • passeoprt
  • passeporrt
  • passeportt
  • passepotr
  • passepport
  • passeprot
  • passpeort
  • ppasseport
  • psaseport

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of passeport - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

apsseport2paseport1pasesport2passeoprt2passeporrt1passeportt1passepotr2passepport1
Edit distance from "passeport"

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.

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's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "passeport", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

opposants#6,635pharmacie#6,639placement#6,640quantités#6,647

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

marathon12 variantsréservée12 variantssanitaire12 variantstouchant12 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list