baissait

\bɛ.sɛ\

/\bɛ.sɛ\/ verb

The verdict

“baissait” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,137. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#41,137
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe baisser.

Corpus desk

Index FR-baissait · baissait · French

baissait · rank #41,137 · 9 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #41,137
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH baignant

Nearest frequency peer: baignant (-1 rank slots)

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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « baissait »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « baissait » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

baissait vs bossait
75% similar
baissait vs baissent
75% similar
baissait vs baissant
88% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for baissait
PropertyValue
Headwordbaissait
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\bɛ.sɛ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#41,137
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « baissait »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.baissaitse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « baignant » (#41,136), « balistiques » (#41,138), « Aumale » (#41,135). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « baissait » est au #41,137. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around baissait (IPA \bɛ.sɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #41,137 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe baisser.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for baissait, with forms such as "abissait", "baisait", and "baisasit". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "bossait", "baissent", "baissant", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 baissait, spelled B-A-I-S-S-A-I-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe baisser.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how baissait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Seule, une petite lanterne éclairait le niveau d’eau, pour que nulle lumière n’aveuglât le mécanicien ; et, sur le cadran du manomètre, dont l’émail semblait garder une lueur propre, il avait vu que l’aiguille bleue, tremblante, baissait rapidement.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • abissait
  • baisait
  • baisasit
  • baissaitt
  • baissati
  • baissiat
  • basisait
  • bbaissait
  • biassait

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of baissait - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

abissait2baisait1baisasit2baissaitt1baissati2baissiat2basisait2bbaissait1
Edit distance from "baissait"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "baissait"?
"baissait" is spelled B-A-I-S-S-A-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \bɛ.sɛ\.
What does "baissait" mean?
As a verb, "baissait" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe baisser.
What words are commonly confused with "baissait"?
"baissait" is commonly confused with "bossait", "baissent", "baissant". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "baissait"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "baissait" is \bɛ.sɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "baissait" come from?
"baissait" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "baissait", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list