passèrent
\pa.sɛʁ\
The verdict
“passèrent” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,171. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,171
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de passer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-passerent · passèrent · French
passèrent · rank #27,171 · 13 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,171
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH papyrus
Nearest frequency peer: papyrus (-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 « passèrent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pakistanaise
pakistanaise
72,833 corpus weight
- Papineau
Papineau
72,832 corpus weight
- papyrus
papyrus
72,831 corpus weight
- passèrent
passèrent
72,830 corpus weight
- pastèque
pastèque
72,829 corpus weight
- patronyme
patronyme
72,828 corpus weight
What this shows « passèrent » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | passèrent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pa.sɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #27,171 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « passèrent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around passèrent (IPA \pa.sɛʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #27,171 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de passer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for passèrent, with forms such as "apssèrent", "passerent", and "passrèent". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "passerez", "possèdent", "passeront", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is passèrent, spelled P-A-S-S-È-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de passer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how passèrent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Enfin, tous les intendants de Bourgogne passèrent par la fonction obligée de maître des requêtes.
Quelques jours se passèrent pendant lesquels la neige des vallées fondit insensiblement ; le vert des forêts poignit comme l’herbe nouvelle, la nature norvégienne fit les apprêts de sa parure pour les noces d’un jour.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apssèrent
- passerent
- passrèent
- passèernt
- passèrennt
- passèrentt
- passèretn
- passèrnet
- passèrrent
- pasèrent
- pasèsrent
- ppassèrent
- psasèrent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of passèrent - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).