Which to use
“passager” and “passagères” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #8,438
- “passager” frequency rank
- #48,706
- “passagères” frequency rank
- 57144
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | passager | passagères |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui ne s’arrête pas dans un lieu ; qui ne fait que passer. | Féminin pluriel de passager. |
Where the eye mixes passager and passagères
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 7 letters in sequence. passager runs 8 letters (CVCCVCVC) against passagères's 10 (CVCCVCVCVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Look-alike desk: passager vs passagères
A purely visual mix-up. passager (\pa.sa.ʒe\) and passagères (\pa.sa.ʒɛʁ\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 57144, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
passager is recorded at frequency rank #8,438, classified as anadj, pronounced \pa.sa.ʒe\. passagères is at rank #48,706, tagged as anadj, pronounced \pa.sa.ʒɛʁ\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 57144, this pair ranks #116,780 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of passager vs passagères
Shared letters: aegprs. Private to "passager": -. Private to "passagères": è.
"passager" · 8 letters · shape CVCCVCVC · "passagères" · 10 letters · shape CVCCVCVCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- passager ← apssager · pasager · pasasger · passaegr · passagerr · passagger · passagre · passgaer
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "passager" and "passagères" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "passager" or "passagères"?
What to do next
Pronunciation already separates them, if the page still looks alike, the dictionary links below settle it.
- Full dictionary entry for "passager" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "passagères" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #116,780 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "passager" and "passagères" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "passagère vs passagères". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #116,780 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.