passos
/'pɐ.sʊs/
The verdict
“passos” is a regularly-used Portuguese word, ranked #2,338 in Portuguese word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #2,338
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 6
- letters
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - plural de passo
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 | passos |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /'pɐ.sʊs/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,338 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “passos” sits in Portuguese frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Portuguese entry for passos is 6 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /'pɐ.sʊs/. Corpus data places it at rank #2,338 in overall Portuguese word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "plural de passo".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for passos, with forms such as "apssos", "pasos", and "pasoss". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "pasto", "pessoa", "pastor", 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 passos, spelled P-A-S-S-O-S.
Definition
- 1plural de passo
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: apssos,pasos,pasoss,passoss,passso,ppassos,psasos
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of passos - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 “passos”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Portuguese spelling is P-A-S-S-O-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /'pɐ.sʊs/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “pasto” - see the side-by-side comparison. passos vs pasto
- 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.