baptise

\ba.tiz\

/\ba.tiz\/ verb

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The verdict

“baptise” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,193. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#37,193
frequency rank, French
4,251
“B” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
10
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe baptiser.

Corpus desk

Index FR-baptise · baptise · French

baptise · rank #37,193 · 10 variants · 10 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #37,193
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,251
  • PHOTO-FINISH barca

Nearest frequency peer: barca (+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 « baptise »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « baptise » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

baptise vs bâtie
57% similar
baptise vs bêtise
71% similar
baptise vs bâtisse
57% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for baptise
PropertyValue
Headwordbaptise
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ba.tiz\
Letters7
Frequency rank#37,193
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs10
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « baptise »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.baptisese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « barca » (#37,194), « balustrade » (#37,191), « basil » (#37,195). Parmi 4,251 lemmes en « B », « baptise » est au #37,193. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around baptise (IPA \ba.tiz\), averb. Corpus frequency is #37,193 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for baptise, with forms such as "abptise", "bapitse", and "bapptise". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "bâtie", "bêtise", "bâtisse", 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is baptise, spelled B-A-P-T-I-S-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe baptiser.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe baptiser.
  3. 3
    Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe baptiser.
  4. 4
    Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe baptiser.
  5. 5
    Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif du verbe baptiser.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how baptise appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Les courtisanes, pour embrasser tout le sexe féminin qu’on baptise, qu’on débaptise et rebaptise à chaque quart de siècle, conservent toutes au fond de leur cœur un florissant désir de recouvrer leur liberté, d’aimer purement, saintement et noblement un être auquel elles sacrifient tout.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • abptise
  • bapitse
  • bapptise
  • bapties
  • baptisse
  • baptsie
  • bapttise
  • batpise
  • bbaptise
  • bpatise

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of baptise - 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.

abptise2bapitse2bapptise1bapties2baptisse1baptsie2bapttise1batpise2
Edit distance from "baptise"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "baptise"?
"baptise" is spelled B-A-P-T-I-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ba.tiz\.
What does "baptise" mean?
As a verb, "baptise" means: Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe baptiser.
What words are commonly confused with "baptise"?
"baptise" is commonly confused with "bâtie", "bêtise", "bâtisse". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "baptise"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "baptise" is \ba.tiz\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "baptise" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "baptise", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

avérait#37,190atteins#37,184bouchet#37,205assista#37,180

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

Allociné10 variantsalarmer10 variantsajustée10 variantscharts10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list