passeron
\paseˈɾu\
The verdict
“passeron” is uncommon French (frequency #83,236 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,236
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Passereau, moineau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-passeron · passeron · French
passeron · rank #83,236 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,236
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH paste
Nearest frequency peer: paste (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « passeron »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- panpan
panpan
16,770 corpus weight
- paraclet
paraclet
16,768 corpus weight
- passeron
passeron
16,765 corpus weight
- paste
paste
16,764 corpus weight
- pede
pede
16,762 corpus weight
- peignez
peignez
16,761 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « passeron » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | passeron |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \paseˈɾu\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #83,236 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « passeron » en français
Rare enough to double-check
passeron is uncommon French at frequency #83,236 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \paseˈɾu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Passereau, moineau.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for passeron, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is passeron, spelled P-A-S-S-E-R-O-N.
Definition
- 1Passereau, moineau.
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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