passer de la pommade
\pa.se də la pɔ.mad\
The verdict
“passer de la pommade” 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) - Flatter, flagorner.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | passer de la pommade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pa.se də la pɔ.mad\ |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “passer de la pommade” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for passer de la pommade is 20 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.se də la pɔ.mad\. 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: "Flatter, flagorner.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for passer de la pommade in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is passer de la pommade, spelled P-A-S-S-E-R- -D-E- -L-A- -P-O-M-M-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Flatter, flagorner.
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 de la pommade”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-A-S-S-E-R- -D-E- -L-A- -P-O-M-M-A-D-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pa.se də la pɔ.mad\ (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.