# Basque

> English word · Noun · IPA /bɑːsk/ · frequency rank #22,898

## Definitions
1. A member of a cultural and ethnic people living in the western Pyrenees and the Bay of Biscay between France and Spain.

## Etymology
Borrowed from French basque, from Gascon Occitan basc, from Latin Vascō, Vascōnēs pl, a pre-Roman era tribe settled in the Atlantic Biscaian gulf and Pyrenean mountain region of south-western Europe, who were ancestors of the current Basque population.

## Easily confused with
- **Basu** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/basque-vs-basu)
- **base** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/base-vs-basque)
- **banquet** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/banquet-vs-basque)
- **Baroque** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/baroque-vs-basque)
- **bask** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bask-vs-basque)

## Common misspellings (8)
`absque`, `baqsue`, `basqeu`, `basqque`, `bassque`, `basuqe`, `bbasque`, `bsaque`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/basque