passions
\pa.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“passions” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,736. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,736
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de passion.
Corpus desk
Index FR-passions · passions · French
passions · rank #7,736 · 10 variants · 13 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,736
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH parker
Nearest frequency peer: parker (-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 « passions »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- obtention
obtention
92,268 corpus weight
- oral
oral
92,267 corpus weight
- parker
parker
92,266 corpus weight
- passions
passions
92,265 corpus weight
- perfection
perfection
92,264 corpus weight
- plateaux
plateaux
92,263 corpus weight
What this shows « passions » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | passions |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,736 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « passions »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around passions (IPA \pa.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,736 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de passion.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for passions, with forms such as "apssions", "pasions", and "pasisons". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "pensions", "pulsions", "passives", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is passions, spelled P-A-S-S-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de passion.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how passions appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je sens les chaînes des passions se désappesantir, les vues de l’éternité devenir plus consolantes de jour en jour, et les petites tracasseries de la vie humaine me paraissent tous les jours plus puériles.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apssions
- pasions
- pasisons
- passinos
- passionns
- passionss
- passiosn
- passoins
- ppassions
- psasions
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of passions - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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