baiser
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,909
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
baiser is aFrenchnoun. It means: Contact de la bouche sur le visage, sur les lèvres, sur quelque partie du corps d’un individu, par amitié, par amour, par désir, par civilité ou par respect. Pronounced \bɛ.ze\. It ranks #2,909 in French word frequency. Often confused with Base and basse.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baiser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɛ.ze\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,909 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for baiser is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bɛ.ze\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,909 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for baiser, with forms such as "abiser", "baiesr", and "baiserr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Base", "basse", "bases", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 French form is baiser, spelled B-A-I-S-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Contact de la bouche sur le visage, sur les lèvres, sur quelque partie du corps d’un individu, par amitié, par amour, par désir, par civilité ou par respect.
- 2Geste de simulation d’un baiser où l’on porte sa main aux lèvres, à l’adresse d’une ou plusieurs personnes.
- 3Sorte de meringue double, spécialité de la ville belge de Malmedy, en Wallonie.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abiser,baiesr,baiserr,baisre,basier,bbaiser,biaser
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for baiser
Misspelling Variants of "baiser"
Frequency rank: #2,909 in French
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