baquet

/\ba.kɛ\/ noun

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.

Key facts for baquet
PropertyValue
Headwordbaquet
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ba.kɛ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#41,666
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of baquet in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Petit cuvier, généralement de bois, dont les bords sont assez bas.
  2. 2
    Caisse où les graveurs versent et font mordre l’eau-forte sur des planches de cuivre.
  3. 3
    Pierre creuse remplie d’eau pour nettoyer les caractères d’imprimerie.
  4. 4
    C'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)
  5. 5
    Siège individuel en forme de fauteuil qui épouse bien le corps. On dit aussi siège-baquet.
  6. 6
    Ventre.
  7. 7
    Bateau à fond plat utilisé pour procéder au nettoyage des canaux du nord de la France.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

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"

abquet6baqeut6baqquet7baquett7baqute6bauqet6bbaquet7bqauet6
Misspelling Variants of "baquet"

Frequency rank: #41,666 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "baquet"?
"baquet" is spelled B-A-Q-U-E-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ba.kɛ\.
What does "baquet" mean?
As a noun, "baquet" means: Petit cuvier, généralement de bois, dont les bords sont assez bas.
What words are commonly confused with "baquet"?
"baquet" is commonly confused with "Bauer", "basket", "basque". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "baquet"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "baquet" is \ba.kɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "baquet" come from?
"baquet" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.