Passy
\pa.si\
The verdict
“Passy” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,068. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,068
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Localité rattachée à Paris en 1860, 16ᵉ arrondissement de Paris.
Corpus desk
Index FR-passy · Passy · French
Passy · rank #29,068 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,068
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH parlions
Nearest frequency peer: parlions (-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 « Passy »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- orfèvres
orfèvres
70,936 corpus weight
- ottomans
ottomans
70,935 corpus weight
- parlions
parlions
70,934 corpus weight
- Passy
Passy
70,933 corpus weight
- payaient
payaient
70,931 corpus weight
- Peillon
Peillon
70,930 corpus weight
What this shows « Passy » 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 | Passy |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \pa.si\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #29,068 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Passy »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Passy (IPA \pa.si\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #29,068 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Passy, with forms such as "apssy", "passyy", and "pasys". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "psy", "pay", "pays", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented 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 Passy, spelled P-A-S-S-Y.
Definition
- 1Localité rattachée à Paris en 1860, 16ᵉ arrondissement de Paris.
- 2Commune française, située dans le département de Saône-et-Loire.
- 3Commune française, située dans le département de la Haute-Savoie.
- 4Commune française, située dans le département de l’Yonne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Passy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce matin, à la messe dans une église de Passy. Assombri tant soit peu par la laideur de cet endroit. Les vitraux sont à pleurer d’ennui, car il y a dans la laideur un puissant élément d’ennui. L’ennui est la flûte sur laquelle le démon nous joue ses airs préférés.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apssy
- passyy
- pasys
- ppassy
- psasy
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Passy - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).