passoires
\pa.swaʁ\
The verdict
“passoires” is uncommon French (frequency #68,534 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,534
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de passoire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-passoires · passoires · French
passoires · rank #68,534 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,534
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH parkway
Nearest frequency peer: parkway (-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 « passoires »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- panza
panza
31,470 corpus weight
- paperasserie
paperasserie
31,469 corpus weight
- parkway
parkway
31,468 corpus weight
- passoires
passoires
31,467 corpus weight
- patrocle
patrocle
31,466 corpus weight
- percevez
percevez
31,464 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « passoires » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | passoires |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pa.swaʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #68,534 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « passoires » en français
Rare enough to double-check
passoires is uncommon French at frequency #68,534 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pa.swaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de passoire.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for passoires in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 passoires, spelled P-A-S-S-O-I-R-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de passoire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how passoires appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les passoires sont percées de trous parfaitement ronds, dont le diamètre varie suivant les numéros de la dragée à fabriquer.
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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