passa
/ˈpa.sɐ/
The verdict
“passa” is in the everyday core of Portuguese, ranked #469 in Portuguese word frequency and used as an interjection.
- #469
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 5
- letters
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - expressa enxotadura direcionada a cão
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 | passa |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /ˈpa.sɐ/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #469 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “passa” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for passa is 5 letters long, classified as an interjection, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈpa.sɐ/. Corpus data places it at rank #469 in overall Portuguese word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "expressa enxotadura direcionada a cão".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for passa, with forms such as "apssa", "pasa", and "pasas". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pata", "past", "pista", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct Portuguese form is passa, spelled P-A-S-S-A.
Definition
- 1expressa enxotadura direcionada a cão
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: apssa,pasa,pasas,ppassa,psasa
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of passa - 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 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “passa”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is P-A-S-S-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈpa.sɐ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “pata” - see the side-by-side comparison. passa vs pata
- Browse more Portuguese words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Portuguese words
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.