baquet
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#41,666
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
baquet is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petit cuvier, généralement de bois, dont les bords sont assez bas. Pronounced \ba.kɛ\. Often confused with Bauer and basket.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | baquet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ba.kɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #41,666 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for baquet is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ba.kɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #41,666 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for baquet, with forms such as "abquet", "baqeut", and "baqquet". 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, "Bauer", "basket", "basque", 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 baquet, spelled B-A-Q-U-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Petit cuvier, généralement de bois, dont les bords sont assez bas.
- 2Caisse où les graveurs versent et font mordre l’eau-forte sur des planches de cuivre.
- 3Pierre creuse remplie d’eau pour nettoyer les caractères d’imprimerie.
- 4C'est un vaisseau de bois rond, quarré ou oblong dans lequel le jardinier sème quelques graines. Les plus communs sont ronds et font la moitié d'un muid ou un demi-muid scié en deux ou bien on en fait exprès chez le tonnelier pour être à peu près de la même figure et pour cet effet il emploie des douves des cerceaux et des osiers. (définition du dictionnaire économique de Noël Chomel édité à Lyon en 1709)
- 5Siège individuel en forme de fauteuil qui épouse bien le corps. On dit aussi siège-baquet.
- 6Ventre.
- 7Bateau à fond plat utilisé pour procéder au nettoyage des canaux du nord de la France.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: abquet,baqeut,baqquet,baquett,baqute,bauqet,bbaquet,bqauet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for baquet
Misspelling Variants of "baquet"
Frequency rank: #41,666 in French
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