passiez
\pa.sje\
The verdict
“passiez” is uncommon French (frequency #52,254 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,254
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de passer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-passiez · passiez · French
passiez · rank #52,254 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,254
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH parleras
Nearest frequency peer: parleras (-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 « passiez »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pantois
pantois
47,750 corpus weight
- papon
papon
47,749 corpus weight
- parleras
parleras
47,748 corpus weight
- passiez
passiez
47,747 corpus weight
- patrouillent
patrouillent
47,746 corpus weight
- payeront
payeront
47,744 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « passiez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | passiez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pa.sje\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #52,254 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « passiez » en français
Rare enough to double-check
passiez is uncommon French at frequency #52,254 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pa.sje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
passiez doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is passiez, spelled P-A-S-S-I-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de passer.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de passer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how passiez appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je connais ce lieu parce que Lauren me l’a montré, mais j’ignorais que vous passiez du temps ici.
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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