passerelle
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,095
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
passerelle is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sorte de pont étroit qui sert aux piétons. Pronounced \pas.ʁɛl\. Often confused with passerelles.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | passerelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pas.ʁɛl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #11,095 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for passerelle is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pas.ʁɛl\. Corpus data places it at rank #11,095 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for passerelle, with forms such as "apsserelle", "paserelle", and "pasesrelle". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "passerelles", 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 passerelle, spelled P-A-S-S-E-R-E-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sorte de pont étroit qui sert aux piétons.
- 2Plan incliné, escalier mobile qui relie un bateau au quai.
- 3Escalier mobile qui relie un avion à l’aire d’embarquement.
- 4Ce qui relie une chose à une autre.
- 5Plateforme positionnée au dessus du pont supérieur d’un navire, où se tiennent les officiers qui dirigent le navire.
- 6Plateforme sur laquelle défilent les mannequins portant des créations de mode.
- 7Dispositif destiné à connecter des réseaux de télécommunication ayant des architectures différentes ou des protocoles différents, ou offrant des services différents.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: apsserelle,paserelle,pasesrelle,passeerlle,passerele,passerelel,passerlele,passerrelle,passreelle,ppasserelle,psaserelle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for passerelle
Misspelling Variants of "passerelle"
Frequency rank: #11,095 in French
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