phrase de passe

/\fʁɑz də pas\/ noun

The verdict

“phrase de passe” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.

Unranked
below top-frequency French
15
letters

Dominant Wiktionary sense: Mot de passe composé d’une phrase entière.

Key facts for phrase de passe
PropertyValue
Headwordphrase de passe
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\fʁɑz də pas\
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “phrase de passe” sits in French frequency

phrase de passe falls outside the top-100,000 ranked French words — the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for phrase de passe is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \fʁɑz də pas\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Mot de passe composé d’une phrase entière.".

No misspelling variants are generated for phrase de passe in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is phrase de passe, spelled P-H-R-A-S-E- -D-E- -P-A-S-S-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Mot de passe composé d’une phrase entière.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "phrase de passe"?
"phrase de passe" is spelled P-H-R-A-S-E- -D-E- -P-A-S-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \fʁɑz də pas\.
What does "phrase de passe" mean?
As a noun, "phrase de passe" means: Mot de passe composé d’une phrase entière.
How do you pronounce "phrase de passe"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "phrase de passe" is \fʁɑz də pas\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "phrase de passe" come from?
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Using “phrase de passe”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is P-H-R-A-S-E- -D-E- -P-A-S-S-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \fʁɑz də pas\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.