passer à table
\pa.se.ʁ‿a tabl\
The verdict
“passer à table” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - S’installer à une table pour manger.
Corpus desk
Index FR-passer-a-table · passer à table · French
passer à table · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | passer à table |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pa.se.ʁ‿a tabl\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « passer à table » en français
Rare enough to double-check
passer à table is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \pa.se.ʁ‿a tabl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for passer à table in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 table, spelled P-A-S-S-E-R- -À- -T-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1S’installer à une table pour manger.
- 2Révéler quelque chose de caché, d’illégal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how passer à table appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
2 mai 43 – La tante émerge des cuisines, très fébrile et dit qu’on peut « passer » à table. On y passera, passera, à la queue leu leu.
Surprise : la jeune femme était en possession d’une forte somme d’argent et d’une quantité importante de préservatifs… Acculée par cette découverte, la ressortissante ukrainienne passait à table en garde à vue et admettait faire partie d’un tentaculaire réseau de prostitution, dirigé depuis Nîmes, et actif sur l’ensemble du territoire.
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.