Pessah
\pɛ.saʁ\
The verdict
“Pessah” is uncommon French (frequency #84,162 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,162
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de Pessa’h.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pessah · Pessah · French
Pessah · rank #84,162 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,162
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pesantes
Nearest frequency peer: pesantes (-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 « Pessah »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- persistera
persistera
15,842 corpus weight
- persistes
persistes
15,841 corpus weight
- pesantes
pesantes
15,840 corpus weight
- Pessah
Pessah
15,839 corpus weight
- pestiféré
pestiféré
15,838 corpus weight
- pestilence
pestilence
15,837 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Pessah » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pessah |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɛ.saʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #84,162 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Pessah » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Pessah is uncommon French at frequency #84,162 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɛ.saʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de Pessa’h.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Pessah in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Pessah, spelled P-E-S-S-A-H.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de Pessa’h.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Pessah appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Première des trois fêtes de pèlerinage, Pessah puise sa signification, tout comme les deux autres fêtes de pèlerinage, dans une double source : historique et agraire.
Le soir de Pessah, il est de tradition que le patriarche lise à haute voix la Haggadah, c'est-à-dire le récit de la sortie d'Égypte du peuple hébreu conduit par Moïse.
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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