passionnait
\pa.sjɔ.nɛ\
The verdict
“passionnait” is uncommon French (frequency #78,718 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,718
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de passionner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-passionnait · passionnait · French
passionnait · rank #78,718 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,718
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH passai
Nearest frequency peer: passai (-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 « passionnait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- partagerez
partagerez
21,286 corpus weight
- parvenais
parvenais
21,285 corpus weight
- passai
passai
21,284 corpus weight
- passionnait
passionnait
21,283 corpus weight
- pastiches
pastiches
21,282 corpus weight
- patricienne
patricienne
21,281 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « passionnait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | passionnait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pa.sjɔ.nɛ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #78,718 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « passionnait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
passionnait is uncommon French at frequency #78,718 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pa.sjɔ.nɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de passionner.".
No misspelling variants are generated for passionnait in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is passionnait, spelled P-A-S-S-I-O-N-N-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de passionner.
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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