passés

\pa.se\

/\pa.se\/ adj

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The verdict

“passés” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,556. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#3,556
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de passé.

Corpus desk

Index FR-passes · passés · French

passés · rank #3,556 · 7 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #3,556
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH ouvriers

Nearest frequency peer: ouvriers (-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 « passés »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « passés » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

passés vs pause
50% similar
passés vs payés
67% similar
passés vs Pisse
33% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for passés
PropertyValue
Headwordpassés
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\pa.se\
Letters6
Frequency rank#3,556
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « passés »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).passésse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « ouvriers » (#3,555), « pauvreté » (#3,557), « oubliez » (#3,554). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « passés » est au #3,556. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around passés (IPA \pa.se\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #3,556 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de passé.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for passés, with forms such as "apssés", "passes", and "passsé". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pause", "payés", "Pisse", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is passés, spelled P-A-S-S-É-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Masculin pluriel de passé.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how passés appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Face aux tourmentes, aux vents d’Ouest venus du large, soutenue par les lierres géants qui se sont agriffés à ses millénaires murailles, que leurs trois mètres d’épaisseur ont accueillis et qui la font désormais éternelle, on se la figure un de ses farouches veilleurs des temps passés, gardiens du pays qui les entoure et prête à donner l’alarme si quelque…

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • apssés
  • passes
  • passsé
  • passéss
  • paséss
  • ppassés
  • psasés

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of passés - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

apssés2passes1passsé2passéss1paséss2ppassés1psasés2
Edit distance from "passés"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "passés"?
"passés" is spelled P-A-S-S-É-S. The IPA pronunciation is \pa.se\.
What does "passés" mean?
As an adjective, "passés" means: Masculin pluriel de passé.
What words are commonly confused with "passés"?
"passés" is commonly confused with "pause", "payés", "Pisse". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "passés"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "passés" is \pa.se\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "passés" come from?
"passés" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "passés", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

prévue#3,561marins#3,543fusion#3,538francs#3,536

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

météo7 variantsmotif7 variantsSache7 variantsSNCF7 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list