passer à autre chose
\pa.se a o.tʁə ʃoz\
The verdict
“passer à autre chose” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a verb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Laisser quelque chose d’ancien derrière soi pour passer à quelque chose de nouveau.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | passer à autre chose |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pa.se a o.tʁə ʃoz\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “passer à autre chose” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for passer à autre chose is 20 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.se a o.tʁə ʃoz\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Laisser quelque chose d’ancien derrière soi pour passer à quelque chose de nouveau.".
passer à autre chose has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is passer à autre chose, spelled P-A-S-S-E-R- -À- -A-U-T-R-E- -C-H-O-S-E.
Definition
- 1Laisser quelque chose d’ancien derrière soi pour passer à quelque chose de nouveau.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “passer à autre chose”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-A-S-S-E-R- -À- -A-U-T-R-E- -C-H-O-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pa.se a o.tʁə ʃoz\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.