baisser
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,896
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
baisser is aFrenchverb. It means: Faire descendre, mettre plus bas. Pronounced \be.se\. It ranks #3,896 in French word frequency. Often confused with basse and baser.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baisser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \be.se\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #3,896 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for baisser is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \be.se\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,896 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 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 baisser, with forms such as "abisser", "baisesr", and "baisserr". 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, "basse", "baser", "bosser", 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 baisser, spelled B-A-I-S-S-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Faire descendre, mettre plus bas.
- 2Incliner vers le sol.
- 3Amoindrir un son.
- 4Diminuer la valeur vénale d’une chose.
- 5Diminuer de hauteur, rendre plus bas.
- 6Descendre (une rivière, un fleuve).
- 7Aller en diminuant de hauteur.
- 8Diminuer en intensité, en force.
- 9…
- 10S’abaisser, se courber, se faire petit.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abisser,baisesr,baisserr,baissre,basiser,bbaisser,biasser
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for baisser
Misspelling Variants of "baisser"
Frequency rank: #3,896 in French
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