passivité

\pa.si.vi.te\

/\pa.si.vi.te\/ noun

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The verdict

“passivité” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,705. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#24,705
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - État de celui qui est passif, ou de celle qui est passive ; caractère de ce qui est passif.

Corpus desk

Index FR-passivite · passivité · French

passivité · rank #24,705 · 12 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #24,705
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH passerais

Nearest frequency peer: passerais (-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 « passivité »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « passivité » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

passivité vs passive
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for passivité
PropertyValue
Headwordpassivité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pa.si.vi.te\
Letters9
Frequency rank#24,705
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « passivité »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).passivitése place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « passerais » (#24,704), « patrimoines » (#24,706), « parvenait » (#24,703). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « passivité » est au #24,705. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around passivité (IPA \pa.si.vi.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,705 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for passivité, with forms such as "apssivité", "pasisvité", and "pasivité". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "passive", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is passivité, spelled P-A-S-S-I-V-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    État de celui qui est passif, ou de celle qui est passive ; caractère de ce qui est passif.
  2. 2
    État de l’âme passive sous l’opération de Dieu.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how passivité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. L'exemple extrême d'une attitude utopique prônant la passivité a été celle de l'Église du XIXᵉ siècle proposant à la classe ouvrière éhontément exploitée de prendre patience, les souffrances subies sur cette terre lui ouvrant pour après la mort les portes du Paradis.
  2. La passivité est opposée à l’activité.

This word in other languages

passivity(English)passividade(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • apssivité
  • pasisvité
  • pasivité
  • passiivté
  • passivite
  • passivitté
  • passiviét
  • passivtié
  • passivvité
  • passviité
  • ppassivité
  • psasivité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of passivité - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

apssivité2pasisvité2pasivité1passiivté2passivite1passivitté1passiviét2passivtié2
Edit distance from "passivité"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "passivité"?
"passivité" is spelled P-A-S-S-I-V-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \pa.si.vi.te\.
What does "passivité" mean?
As a noun, "passivité" means: État de celui qui est passif, ou de celle qui est passive ; caractère de ce qui est passif.
What words are commonly confused with "passivité"?
"passivité" is commonly confused with "passive". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "passivité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "passivité" is \pa.si.vi.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "passivité" come from?
"passivité" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "passivité", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

passerais#24,704parvenait#24,703patronale#24,707parlerais#24,701

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

pictures12 variantsPoincaré12 variantsNazareth12 variantsprimauté12 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list