passing
\pa.siŋ\
The verdict
“passing” is uncommon French (frequency #54,146 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,146
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme de jonglerie où plusieurs personnes se passent des objets entre elles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-passing · passing · French
passing · rank #54,146 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,146
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH parqués
Nearest frequency peer: parqués (-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 « passing »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- paraffine
paraffine
45,859 corpus weight
- parcourait
parcourait
45,858 corpus weight
- parolier
parolier
45,857 corpus weight
- parqués
parqués
45,856 corpus weight
- passing
passing
45,855 corpus weight
- peanuts
peanuts
45,853 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « passing » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | passing |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.siŋ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,146 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « passing » en français
Rare enough to double-check
passing is uncommon French at frequency #54,146 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.siŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
passing doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is passing, spelled P-A-S-S-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Forme de jonglerie où plusieurs personnes se passent des objets entre elles.
- 2Abréviation de passing-shot.
- 3Dans le cas d'une personne trans, le fait d’être habituellement perçue, aux yeux des autres, comme une personne cisgenre.
- 4Quelqu’un, quelque chose qui passe pour une autre personne, une autre chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how passing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C'était un numéro de passing notamment, à deux trapèzes et neuf massues. Loco y assurait la réception au sol, renvoyant aux deux acrobates qui se croisaient en mouvement synchronisé les massues tournoyantes.
Bastien travaillait un passing de massues avec Rémi et j'en ai compté sept. L'une d'elles montait toujours plus haut que les autres et les bras faisaient des mouvements continus, les massues émettant un bruit clair et creux lorsqu'elles claquaient contre les mains des jongleurs.
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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