baissait
\bɛ.sɛ\
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
- auditives
auditives
58,867 corpus weight
- Aumale
Aumale
58,866 corpus weight
- baignant
baignant
58,865 corpus weight
- baissait
baissait
58,864 corpus weight
- balistiques
balistiques
58,863 corpus weight
- baronnie
baronnie
58,862 corpus weight
What this shows « baissait » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baissait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \bɛ.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #41,137 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « baissait »
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
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe baisser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how baissait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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.
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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).