passez-moi le mot

/\pa.se.mwa lə mo\/ verb

Letters

17 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

passez-moi le mot is aFrenchverb. It means: S’emploie afin d’atténuer (ou bien au contraire de mettre en valeur) le caractère potentiellement choquant de l’expression qui suit. Pronounced \pa.se.mwa lə mo\.

Key facts for passez-moi le mot
PropertyValue
Headwordpassez-moi le mot
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\pa.se.mwa lə mo\
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

passez-moi le mot is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for passez-moi le mot is 17 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.se.mwa lə mo\. 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: "S’emploie afin d’atténuer (ou bien au contraire de mettre en valeur) le caractère potentiellement choquant de l’expression qui suit.".

No misspelling variants are generated for passez-moi le mot in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 passez-moi le mot, spelled P-A-S-S-E-Z---M-O-I- -L-E- -M-O-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    S’emploie afin d’atténuer (ou bien au contraire de mettre en valeur) le caractère potentiellement choquant de l’expression qui suit.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "passez-moi le mot"?
"passez-moi le mot" is spelled P-A-S-S-E-Z---M-O-I- -L-E- -M-O-T. The IPA pronunciation is \pa.se.mwa lə mo\.
What does "passez-moi le mot" mean?
As a verb, "passez-moi le mot" means: S’emploie afin d’atténuer (ou bien au contraire de mettre en valeur) le caractère potentiellement choquant de l’expression qui suit.
How do you pronounce "passez-moi le mot"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "passez-moi le mot" is \pa.se.mwa lə mo\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "passez-moi le mot" come from?
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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.