baissant
\bɛ.sɑ̃\
The verdict
“baissant” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,455. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,455
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui baisse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-baissant · baissant · French
baissant · rank #28,455 · 10 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,455
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bai
Nearest frequency peer: bai (-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 « baissant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- averse
averse
71,550 corpus weight
- bagnoles
bagnoles
71,548 corpus weight
- bai
bai
71,547 corpus weight
- baissant
baissant
71,546 corpus weight
- Barrett
Barrett
71,544 corpus weight
- BDSM
BDSM
71,543 corpus weight
What this shows « baissant » 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 | baissant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \bɛ.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #28,455 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « baissant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around baissant (IPA \bɛ.sɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #28,455 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui baisse.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for baissant, with forms such as "abissant", "baisant", and "baisasnt". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "basant", "brisant", "baissent", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is baissant, spelled B-A-I-S-S-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui baisse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how baissant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Plus tard, enfin, dans le contre-point, genre de musique mesurée à plusieurs parties, basé, comme toute la musique occidentale du Moyen-Âge, sur la tonalité du plain-chant, mais qui a précédé, et, en quelque sorte, préparé l’éclosion de la tonalité moderne, on employa, cette fois sans les compter, une foule de demi-tons accidentels, soit haussants, soit b…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abissant
- baisant
- baisasnt
- baissannt
- baissantt
- baissatn
- baissnat
- basisant
- bbaissant
- biassant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of baissant - 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 "baissant", 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 (10 here; floor ≥5).