à bas prix
\a ba pʁi\
The verdict
“à bas prix” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - À un faible coût ; peu cher, bon marché.
Corpus desk
Index FR-a-bas-prix · à bas prix · French
à bas prix · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "À" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | à bas prix |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \a ba pʁi\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « à bas prix » en français
Rare enough to double-check
à bas prix is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed \a ba pʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "À un faible coût ; peu cher, bon marché.".
No misspelling variants are generated for à bas prix in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is à bas prix, spelled À- -B-A-S- -P-R-I-X.
Definition
- 1À un faible coût ; peu cher, bon marché.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how à bas prix appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pendant la belle saison, elle allait souvent aux Halles, à six heures du matin, avec ses filles, pour se procurer à bas prix fruits et légumes.
Synonyms
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.