à bas prix
\a ba pʁi\
The verdict
“à bas prix” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adverb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - À un faible coût ; peu cher, bon marché.
| 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) |
Where “à bas prix” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for à bas prix is 10 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a ba pʁi\. 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: "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.
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.
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Using “à bas prix”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is À- -B-A-S- -P-R-I-X - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \a ba pʁi\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French 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.