Pays basque
[pe.i bask]
The verdict
“Pays basque” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a proper noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — País Vasco.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pays basque |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [pe.i bask] |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Pays basque” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for Pays basque is 11 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [pe.i bask]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "País Vasco.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Pays basque in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is Pays basque, spelled P-A-Y-S- -B-A-S-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1País Vasco.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Pays basque”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is P-A-Y-S- -B-A-S-Q-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [pe.i bask] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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