bak
\ˈbakː\
The verdict
“bak” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #46,599) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #46,599
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme mutée de pak par adoucissement (p → b).
Corpus desk
Index FR-bak · bak · French
bak · rank #46,599 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,599
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH baissera
Nearest frequency peer: baissera (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « bak »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- avouée
avouée
53,407 corpus weight
- aztèques
aztèques
53,406 corpus weight
- aïkido
aïkido
53,405 corpus weight
- baissera
baissera
53,403 corpus weight
- bak
bak
53,402 corpus weight
- Beaujeu
Beaujeu
53,398 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « bak » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | bak |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈbakː\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #46,599 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « bak »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bak is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "be", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \ˈbakː\. Frequency #46,599 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Forme mutée de pak par adoucissement (p → b).".
Zero misspellings are on record for bak in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "be", "BD", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is bak, spelled B-A-K.
Definition
- 1Forme mutée de pak par adoucissement (p → b).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bak appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hañ ! te a bak ahanon !
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).