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bas

UK /bɑːs/noun, verb

bas is spelled B-A-S: 3 letters. It appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,209th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, bas means “plural of ba” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in bas?

Letters3: B-A-S
In writing1.7 times per million words; the 21,209th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is bas?

Bas appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,209th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce bas?

  • UK /bɑːs/
  • UK /bɔːs/
  • UK /bɔs/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What rhymes with bas?

4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as bas from its last stressed vowel (/ɑs/, British pronunciation):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: abs, sab.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

What does bas mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    plural of ba (a form of ba)

verb

  1. 1

    third-person singular simple present indicative of ba (a form of ba)

noun

as BAS
  1. 1

    USInitialism of basic allowance for subsistence.

  2. 2

    Initialism of Bachelor of Applied Science.

  3. 3

    Initialism of behavioral activation system.

noun

as BAs
  1. 1

    plural of BA (a form of BA)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does bas come from?

From Latin bāsium (“kiss”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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