passport
\ˈpæs.pɔɹt\
The verdict
“passport” is uncommon French (frequency #55,494 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,494
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Passeport.
Corpus desk
Index FR-passport · passport · French
passport · rank #55,494 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,494
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH participatifs
Nearest frequency peer: participatifs (-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 « passport »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- parnasse
parnasse
44,510 corpus weight
- partagea
partagea
44,509 corpus weight
- participati…
participatifs
44,508 corpus weight
- passport
passport
44,507 corpus weight
- patronaux
patronaux
44,506 corpus weight
- pendez
pendez
44,505 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « passport » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | passport |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈpæs.pɔɹt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #55,494 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « passport » en français
Rare enough to double-check
passport is uncommon French at frequency #55,494 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈpæs.pɔɹt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Passeport.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for passport, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is passport, spelled P-A-S-S-P-O-R-T.
Definition
- 1Passeport.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how passport appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A valid passport is required to cross the border.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).