passo
\ˈpas.sɔ\
The verdict
“passo” is uncommon French (frequency #85,107 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,107
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pas.
Corpus desk
Index FR-passo · passo · French
passo · rank #85,107 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,107
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pataud
Nearest frequency peer: pataud (+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 « passo »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- papounet
papounet
14,898 corpus weight
- parachevé
parachevé
14,897 corpus weight
- parasitolog…
parasitologie
14,896 corpus weight
- passo
passo
14,894 corpus weight
- pataud
pataud
14,893 corpus weight
- pavia
pavia
14,891 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « passo » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | passo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈpas.sɔ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #85,107 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « passo » en français
Rare enough to double-check
passo is uncommon French at frequency #85,107 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈpas.sɔ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for passo, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is passo, spelled P-A-S-S-O.
Definition
- 1Pas.
- 2Col.
- 3Empattement.
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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