baissière
\bɛ.sjɛʁ\
The verdict
“baissière” is uncommon French (frequency #58,439 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,439
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Reste du vin dans un tonneau quand il approche de la lie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-baissiere · baissière · French
baissière · rank #58,439 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,439
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bais
Nearest frequency peer: bais (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « baissière »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bactérien
bactérien
41,566 corpus weight
- Bahrain
Bahrain
41,564 corpus weight
- bais
bais
41,563 corpus weight
- baissière
baissière
41,562 corpus weight
- baleiniers
baleiniers
41,561 corpus weight
- bandante
bandante
41,560 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « baissière » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baissière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɛ.sjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #58,439 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « baissière » en français
Rare enough to double-check
baissière is uncommon French at frequency #58,439 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bɛ.sjɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
baissière doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is baissière, spelled B-A-I-S-S-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Reste du vin dans un tonneau quand il approche de la lie.
- 2Partie basse d’un champ où l’eau de pluie séjourne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how baissière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les imperfections presque invisibles se sont agencées en troupeaux de singes,en anges sexy, en montagnes escarpées, en baissières bucoliques.
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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