passa
/ˈpa.sɐ/
The verdict
“passa” has 5 generated spelling variants in the Portuguese index at frequency #469. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #469
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 1,578
- “P” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - expressa enxotadura direcionada a cão
Corpus desk
Index PT-passa · passa · Portuguese
passa · rank #469 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #469
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,578
- PHOTO-FINISH outubro
Nearest frequency peer: outubro (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “passa”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- fácil
fácil
99,537 corpus weight
- melhores
melhores
99,536 corpus weight
- outubro
outubro
99,533 corpus weight
- passa
passa
99,532 corpus weight
- produção
produção
99,530 corpus weight
- sociedade
sociedade
99,529 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “passa” sits against the nearest ranked Portuguese headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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) |
Onde “passa” fica na frequência do português
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around passa (IPA /ˈpa.sɐ/), aninterjection. Corpus frequency is #469 among 1,578 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "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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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "passa", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "passa". Here's where to go from here.
- "passa" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "pata". View pair
- 5 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #469 among Portuguese headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more Portuguese words in the "P" letter cohort. P–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
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.