passoire
\pa.swaʁ\
The verdict
“passoire” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,107. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #32,107
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Récipient percé, permettant de retenir une partie des éléments qu’il contient (les plus gros) et de laisser passer les autres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-passoire · passoire · French
passoire · rank #32,107 · 9 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #32,107
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pasquier
Nearest frequency peer: pasquier (-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 « passoire »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- partirai
partirai
67,897 corpus weight
- paso
paso
67,896 corpus weight
- pasquier
pasquier
67,895 corpus weight
- passoire
passoire
67,894 corpus weight
- pastor
pastor
67,893 corpus weight
- path
path
67,892 corpus weight
What this shows « passoire » 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 | passoire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.swaʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #32,107 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « passoire »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around passoire (IPA \pa.swaʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #32,107 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for passoire, with forms such as "apssoire", "pasoire", and "pasosire". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "pastore", "passive", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is passoire, spelled P-A-S-S-O-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Récipient percé, permettant de retenir une partie des éléments qu’il contient (les plus gros) et de laisser passer les autres.
- 2Décrit quelque chose qui a beaucoup de trous.
- 3Se dit d’un gardien de but qui fait preuve de peu d’adresse pour arrêter les tirs adverses.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how passoire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle s’approche. Et lorsqu’elle arrive près du seuil, brusquement, la porte s’ouvre. La vieille apparaît et hurle. Une passoire en émail tombe sur la dalle qui fait office de perron.
Lorsque toute l’oseille sera régulièrement fondue, qu’il ne restera plus aucune feuille verte, il faut la verser dans une passoire et l’y laisser s’égoutter un certain temps.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apssoire
- pasoire
- pasosire
- passiore
- passoier
- passoirre
- passorie
- ppassoire
- psasoire
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of passoire - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).